Melchior Lechter

Melchior Lechter
Exhibition poster Melchior Lechter
on the occasion of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1897, signed, printing note letterpress Otto v. Holten Berlin, colour lithograph on paper, with collection stamp and handwritten numbering, framed behind glass, slight signs of age, dimensions 94 x 70 cm.
artist info: German painter, graphic artist and book artist (1865-1937), apprenticeship as a glass painter, from 1884 studies at the Berlin Academy of Art, where he met Stefan George, on whose published "Blätter für die Kunst" he worked after finishing his studies and whose works he illustrated, In addition to his illustrative works, Lechter's paintings and room decorations, which were influenced by the style of the Pre-Raphaelites, should also be mentioned, such as the design of the Pallenberg Hall of the Cologne Museum of Decorative Arts, as well as the design of the Lumen de Lumine glass window for the new museum building on Domplatz in Münster in 1907, Quelle: Internet. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.