{"id":19072,"date":"2019-03-29T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19072"},"modified":"2019-03-29T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T01:08:00","slug":"oesterreichische-monatsbilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/03\/29\/oesterreichische-monatsbilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Oesterreichische Monatsbilder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Oesterreichische Monatsbilder<\/em> (1900) is an Austrian calendar in book form, and a good reminder that the Art Nouveau style produced a huge amount of high-quality work in a very short space of time. The artists, Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, were featured in a post a couple of years ago with their work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/04\/28\/die-buecher-der-chronika-der-drei-schwestern\/\"><em>Die Buecher der Chronika der drei Schwestern<\/em><\/a>, a book whose drawings were probably produced in tandem with the ones here. For the\u00a0<em>Monatsbilder<\/em> the pair present a calendar whose dates are absent (so it could easily be used today) with each month featuring a variety of symbolic details: astrological signs and figures, birds, plants and other items relating to the month in question. Many of these are specific to Austria, as are the illustrations on the facing pages which depict the patron saints of the provinces. The book may be browsed in full or downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/oesterreichische00lefl\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lefler13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lefler13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/04\/28\/die-buecher-der-chronika-der-drei-schwestern\/\">Die Buecher der Chronika der drei Schwestern<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/02\/03\/leo-visser-calendar-1903\/\">Leo Visser calendar, 1903<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/02\/10\/eugene-grassets-calendar\/\">Eug\u00e8ne Grasset\u2019s calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oesterreichische Monatsbilder (1900) is an Austrian calendar in book form, and a good reminder that the Art Nouveau style produced a huge amount of high-quality work in a very short space of time. The artists, Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, were featured in a post a couple of years ago with their work for Die &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/03\/29\/oesterreichische-monatsbilder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oesterreichische Monatsbilder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,2,42,4],"tags":[5340,8839,7992],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-books","category-design","tag-heinrich-lefler","tag-joseph-urban","tag-leo-visser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4XC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}