White line cut
The white line cut is a variant of the woodcut technique that was widely used in the 16th century. The process is basically the same as the woodcut (here black line cut ). The only difference is that the lines of the drawing are cut like an engraving on the wooden block. When printing, the area that actually makes up the background is printed, and the representation is made up of the white lines - not printing.
This process was first used in Italian book illustration in the 15th century. In 1521 the Swiss Urs Graf the Elder created, among other things, the standard bearer from Lucerne as part of his "Bannerträger" series . In addition to the contour line, he also executed internal hatching in white lines to increase plasticity. Albrecht Dürer used the white woodcut with its negative inversion, i.e. white lines on a dark background, to increase the painterly effects in black-lined woodcuts. In the 19th century, the white line technique after the invention of Thomas Bewick led to a revival of the process.
literature
- Rolf Agte et al .: The great lexicon of graphics. Artists, techniques, notes for collectors , Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1984. ISBN 3-14-509079-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ s. Fig. On p. 30 in: Aleš Krejča: The Techniques of Graphic Art. Manual of the work processes and the history of the original printmaking , Artia Verlag, Prague 1980, 2nd edition by Verlag Werner Dausien, Hanau 1983. ISBN 3-7684-1071-4