{"id":6885,"date":"2010-03-09T03:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2010-10-14T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:43:50","slug":"the-art-of-melchior-lechter-1865%e2%80%931937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/09\/the-art-of-melchior-lechter-1865%e2%80%931937\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Melchior Lechter, 1865\u20131937"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first issue of yesterday’s arts and crafts magazine Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration<\/em> includes an article about Melchior Lechter, a German artist and designer whose illustration work I knew from books by gay poet Stefan George<\/a> but who seems unjustly neglected by fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> art histories. The reminder prompted me to search a bit more actively and doing so turned up another Internet Archive document, Melchior Lechter<\/em><\/a>, a monograph from 1904 by Maximilian Rapsilber. These are Google scans and the quality is very good for once, with a collection of impressive graphic works in Lechter’s religious Art Nouveau style, as well as photos of his furniture and stained glass window designs. I can’t say much more about artist since all the available documentation is in German but the visuals in Rapsilber’s book make me wish we could see more of his work.<\/p>\n

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The first issue of yesterday’s arts and crafts magazine Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration includes an article about Melchior Lechter, a German artist and designer whose illustration work I knew from books by gay poet Stefan George but who seems unjustly neglected by fin de si\u00e8cle art histories. The reminder prompted me to search a bit … Continue reading “The art of Melchior Lechter, 1865\u20131937”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,58,2,30,42,4,48,31],"tags":[7247,136,1064,1063,2373,1065],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-illustrators","category-religion","tag-deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-maximilian-rapsilber","tag-melchior-lechter","tag-stained-glass","tag-stefan-george"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","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=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}