black-and-white images of flowers with pair of horizontally placed tulips at top below an ovoid cartouche with scroll edging at top center, with hand-written text in German; pairs of flowers on stems at left and right center; strawberry-like elements on stems at bottom corners; tulip at bottom center with a black beetle to right of flower; variegated, blotchy washes of color--orang, blue and tan/olive green; some hand-written text in German--some text backwards

%C2%A9 Linda Schwarz

Barockes Welttheater (Daniel Pfisterer’s Baroque World Theater) #113, 2001

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German-born artist Linda Schwarz is acclaimed for her experimental printmaking practice. For this work, part of a series of related prints, Schwarz selected imagery from Daniel Pfisterer’s manuscript codex "Barockes Welttheater: Ein Buch von Menschen, Tieren, Blumen, Gewachsen und Allerley Binfalien" (Baroque World Theater: A book of people, animals, flowers, garden plants, and sundry impressions), completed in 1727. The original manuscript page features hand-drawn flowers and plants, along with brief handwritten descriptions. Schwarz re-printed the appropriated page in black-and-white using transfer lithography and Xerox printing, and then overpainted the images in various colored ink washes. Schwarz’s conceptual adaptations seamlessly merge form and content, transforming an 18th-century manuscript page into a compelling work of contemporary art.

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Title
Barockes Welttheater (Daniel Pfisterer’s Baroque World Theater) #113
Artist Life
born 1963
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.74.3
Provenance
The artist, Würzburg, Germany; (Marlborough Graphics, New York, sold to MacMillan); Nivin MacMillan, Wayzata, Minn.; given to MIA, 2018.
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black-and-white images of flowers with pair of horizontally placed tulips at top below an ovoid cartouche with scroll edging at top center, with hand-written text in German; pairs of flowers on stems at left and right center; strawberry-like elements on stems at bottom corners; tulip at bottom center with a black beetle to right of flower; variegated, blotchy washes of color--orang, blue and tan/olive green; some hand-written text in German--some text backwards

© Linda Schwarz

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