A Christmas joke with a point to it (1906)
Carl Hassmann1906 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1933)
Specifications
- Year
- 1906
- Nationality / school
- Austrian
- Lifespan
- 1869–1933
About the artwork
Carl Hassmann is the artist behind "A Christmas joke with a point to it", dated 1906. Context for 1906: Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. Background on Illustration: Printing methods such as woodcut, engraving, lithography, and photomechanical reproduction each shaped how illustrators worked. Illustration serves a text or a story, a tradition that runs from decorated medieval manuscripts to printed book plates, magazines, and posters. It is listed in the Illustration collection. The image is in landscape orientation.
"A Christmas joke with a point to it" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
Austrian, 1869–1933
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