Japanese Paintings. The Baelz Collection (Set)

Japanese Paintings in the Linden-Museum Stuttgart. A Selection from the Baelz Collection. authors: Doris Croissant, Misako Wakabayashi, Text in English and partly Japanese 2-Volume set in cloth slipcase, Vol. 1: text volume, 366 pages with introduction, catalogue with 875 entries, index, bibliography and glossary (all texts with names and inscriptions in Japanese characters), cloth bound Vol. 2: plate volume, 493 pages, devided in 3 sections: Selected Paintings (pp. 9-176), Illustrations of Catalogue nos. 1-875 (pp. 179-430) and Signatures and Seals (pp. 433-490) with 30 colour and more than 1.300 monochrome illustrations on 421 pages, plus the reproductions of signatures and seals on 58 pages *********************************************************** This scholarly written 2 volume catalogue illustrates and describes 875 carefully selected works from the 3.131 Japanese paintings and sketches including some Chinese and Korean paintings in the Baelz Collection which had been brought together by Erwin von Baelz (1849-1913) in Japan before 1885. The huge collection allows a comprehensive overview of the various stylistic developments and schools of Japanese painting during the middle and late Edo period (1603-1868) and early Meiji era (1868-1912) including also some Buddhist and religious paintings from earlier period. Erwin von Baelz had been appointed 1876 as Professor for Internal Medicine at the later Imperial University of Tôkyô where he teached until 1902 when he left his post.
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