Frans Masereel

Frans Masereel , born the July 30th 1889 with Blankenberge (Belgium) and dead the March 3rd 1972 with Avignon (France), is a Belgian engraver of Flemish origin.

Style

Frans Masereel is often regarded as a Master of engraving on wood, as well as Vallotton. Its style is characterized by strong contrasts between black and white and a powerful graphics, which it often puts at the service of one at the same time fairy-like and social realism. Its expressionism had a great influence on the European engravers. He invented the “novel without word”, graphic account composed of a succession of engravings symbolic systems ( the sun , the idea ). These accounts were a certain success; Thomas Mann for example was fond of delicacies.

Ideas

Masereel took part in the illustration of the review of German Communist youth in the years 1920. In a general way, many its engravings are tinted of Anticapitalisme. It illustrated in particular Baudelaire, Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Kipling, Blaise Cendrars, like Pierre Jean Jouve and Romain Roland of which it shared the pacifist convictions .

Principal works

  • Die Mutter (1919) ( the mother , not translated)
  • the sun (1919)
  • Idea (1920)
  • Wordless cartoon (1920) (these two last disp. in English: The idea and story without words , Shambhala, 2000)
  • the City (1925)
  • Das Gesicht Hamburgs (1964, rééd.) ( the face of Hamburg , not translated)
  • Holzschnitte gegen den Krieg (1989) ( Engravings against the War , not translated)
  • Era aan Verhaeren (1955), engraved wood.
  • Woman with Table (1947), gouache.

External bond

  • Biography

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