#Frans Masereel

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Frans Masereel - Evening Moon (1967)

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Frans Masereel

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Frans Masereel, Belgian, 1889 – 1972 Cat in the Staircase, 1928

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Deserted Place Clichy    -   Frans Masereel , 1937

Belgian, 1889–1972

Oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm. 31.9 x 39.4 in.

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St. Sebastian (1951) - Frans Masereel (Belgian/French, 1889-1972)

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Frans Masereel

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Gods' Man is a wordless novel by American artist Lynd Ward (1905–1985) published in 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods%27_Man

               Frans Masereel            My Book of Hours                     https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/frans-masereel-my-book-of-hours

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Frans Masereel (Belgian, 1889–1972)

Gehart Ziller, Frans Masereel (Dresden: Sachsenverlag, 1949)

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Frans Masereel - Reverie (1955)

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Frans Masereel woodcut for Cendrars' poem Les Pâques à New York

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Shakespeare Weekend 

This week we present Shakespeare’s tragedy, Julius Cesar, the eighth volume of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. Julius Cesar was likely produced around 1599 and was first printed in the folio of 1623. 

This edition of Julius Cesar was illustrated by the famous Belgian illustrator and wood-engraver Frans Masereel. He was an obvious choice for an illustrator; before this project he had illustrated “dozens upon dozens” of books. Including the Limited Editions Club edition of Notre Dame de Paris, 1930. 

In a note on illustrating this text, Masereel explains the necessity for an artist to adjust their “style” to harmonize with a text. 

I cannot imagine how an artist can illustrate books all his life without changing his ‘style.’ While retaining as basis his own methods of expression, the artist must therefore enter as closely as possible into the spirit of the work that he is to embellish with pictures.  

He ends his note in the same tone saying “I have...endeavored to suggest the spirit of the drama... by the plastic means at my command. I have thus desired to accomplish a work that would harmonize with the art of typography.”

The volume was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish. Each of the LEC volumes of Shakespeare’s works are illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Streetlights, Paris in the evening -   Frans Masereel , 1939.

Belgian, 1889–1972

Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm. 25.6 x 36.2 in.

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Frans Masereel (Be)

From “Un Fait Divers (1920)

Wood cut (series of 8, 9x6 cm)