Scrap pattern
Glossy images are colored images printed on paper using the chromolithography process for decorative purposes. Among other things, glossy pictures are used to decorate articles in poetry albums , they are used to decorate letters or hang them on the Christmas tree. They are barter and collector's items. You can still find them on gingerbread cookies that are offered at fairs. Unlike stickers , glossy images are not self-adhesive. The paper is also embossed.
Glossy pictures are arranged in sheets and the individual motifs are connected to one another via small paper bars so that you have to separate them with scissors before use. Depending on the size of the individual motif, a sheet can consist of just one brand or several dozen brands.
Romantic depictions are common. These are either allegorical or representational and are often based on festive themes (New Year's Eve, Easter, Christmas, birthday). You can often find animal and flower motifs or images of angels, lucky charms and figures from the fairy tale and fairy kingdoms. In a noble variant, the glossy pictures are provided with glitter .
The popularity of these images in everyday culture is shown by the large number of names with which they were referred to in different regions, such as B. love stamps, poetry pictures, wafers (pictures), rose pictures, stamped flowers, much love, album pictures, family book pictures, lacquer pictures, gingerbread pictures, scraps or “wishes” (Northern Germany).
history
With the invention and patenting of chromolithography by the lithographer Godefroy Engelmann (1788–1839), there was an upswing in the production and trade of printed matter for everyday use. Posters, advertising graphics of all kinds, scrap pictures, postcards, reproductions of popular images from art history could now be produced in consistent color quality, in large editions and at low costs. One industry that benefited from this was the printing of collector's pictures that were included with certain products and that soon became coveted collector's and swap pictures for which individual albums were made. The so-called Liebig pictures played the pioneering role .
The collecting of glossy pictures reached its peak in Germany and Austria between 1880 and 1910. A real glosspicture mania spread around the turn of the century in England, where not only children, the usual buyers of these little pictures, but also adults fell into the passion for collecting.
Today, glossy prints are still produced and traded by a few print shops based on old templates and serve a limited collector's market. According to its own statements, the world market leader is the Ernst Freihoff paper goods sales company based in Coesfeld in the Münsterland region.
Web links
- Frank Lorentz: The return of the glossy pictures. In: Die Welt-online. December 21, 2003. Retrieved August 21, 2010
- Peter Kolakowski: The secret triumph of the glossy pictures. dw-world.de November 19, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2010
- Thilo Kötters: Gleam pictures - an ideal world captured on paper. Mindener Tageblatt December 22, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2013
- Peter Kolakowski and Christine Sowinski: Maintaining brilliant pictures and co-memories of old people. in Pro Alter 1/2010 The specialist magazine for quality of life of the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Lorentz: The return of the glossy pictures. In: welt.de . December 20, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.wer-weiss-was.de/theme190/article906748.html
- ↑ Glossy pictures - ideal world captured on paper. Retrieved January 1, 2013 .