À jour

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The phrase à jour (German: to the day; but also: in the window), adopted from the French , also appears in German texts on various occasions.

In the office and office language, “being up to date” means: to have processed current business up to the latest, up-to-date status.

This term also occurs when one speaks of the addition to the latest version of ongoing texts such as account books, diaries, inventories.

In arts and crafts, on the other hand, “à jour” describes certain openwork works, for example:

  • in a high relief, subtleties that are so deeply undercut that they detach from the ground,
  • in crafts and arts and crafts , especially in metalwork such ornaments, which are formed from breakthroughs,
  • underneath open worked parts of weapons, including parts of vessels , scabbard fittings and decorative parts. These can be used to reduce weight or just to decorate the weapon.
  • In jewelery work, the gemstone settings open to the side and, above all, the stones held “floating” by only a few claws (prongs), the back of which no longer lies on the metal.
  • In enamel art, the translucent enamel that is partially no longer resting on the carrier metal (window enamel, émail de pliquet à jour )
  • and corresponding techniques of textile craft, see the main article breakthrough work .

The difference between "breakthrough work" and "cut-out work" is not always handled as strictly as it has occasionally been requested.

  • À jour ornament on a door puller, bronze, from the town hall in Bremen , around 1405, now in the Focke Museum Bremen

  • Swiss saber with basket "à jour"

  • Relief with curls worked up to date. Zeughaus, Berlin, "Head of a Dying Warrior" (1697) by Andreas Schlueter.

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: à jour  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ à jour , duden.de
  2. ↑ Gerhard Seifert: Technical terms of the edged weapons knowledge. German ABC of the European naked defensive weapons. (Cut, thrust, hit and hand thrown weapons). Verlag Seifert, Haig 1981.
  3. ↑ PW Hartmann: Article Ajour work in: The large art dictionary , Ajour work
  4. ↑ Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , vol. 5, 1955, col. 594. Cf. the article cut-out work there in vol. 1, col. 1287–1293