NOID 11: first and fast results

NOID 11 (2)

The combined force of the Internet and (Bloggers) is not to be underestimated. Two fast results concerning last posting on unidentified prints and printers.

J. Prescher, has still no identity but two more examples were found both from American sources indicating maybe this artist is an American from German descent. We have 3 prints now, all flower compositions. I perticularly like this red poppies print

And, one more example emerged by the hand of the German artist but whoms signature is not yet identified. Also 3 prints by him are now known. This print has some similarities with Martin Erich Philipp's (1887-1978) 1933 print "Japanische Quitte". That is for the bumble bee. Foxgloves (lat. Digitalis Purpurea) stealing the show here.

Martin Erich Philipp

Ernst Rötteken (1882-1945) also choose this decorative red flowering plant of the apple and pear family: Quince (lat. Chaenomeles Japonica). With Art Deco vase but without the bee. Thank you observant readers and please share any other examples or identifications if you know of them.

Catching Up

John Hall Thorpe

This new example of Hall Thorpe's flower bouquet prints I found Googling some online auction cataloques last week. No name no title. I've never seen it before. I know of this Australian cataloque/ book describing Hall-Thorpe's work (*) but considering it has only 4 colored pictures I decided against looking for a (used) copy.

I've uploaded the flowers to the completion of my posting on the flowers prints of John Hall Thorpe of june 18th.

And now for something quite different. My latest find by an obscure printmaker. As early as 1916 and monogrammed probably S.M. (or M.S). Possibly and most probably by a Dutch artist.

These philosophic Dutch sisters ruminating whilst keeping watch over the sea on top of a dike. Which would locate this great scene somewhere around the former Zuyderzee. Now renamed: IJsselmeer. After closing it of from the North Sea entirely in 1927-1932 by the Afsluitdijk. As a part of the heroic Dutch sea defences called the Deltaworks. Protecting the Dutch (river Rhine and Meuse) Delta from flooding disasters like in 1953. And like in Pakistan last month.

(*) Publisher: Sydney: Print Room Press, 1980. A complete catalogue of the Artist's known woodcuts. Introduction by Robert and Ingrid Holden Port frontis with 4 colour & 29 b/w plates, (84pp) 4to. stiff white color pict wrapps. ISBN 0959456902 (used from $ 50 -250)

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last finds and NOID (5)

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This woodblock-print went up for sale many many times on Ebay. It has been cut off and showed some wrinckling. I have tried pursuading the seller many times to send it to me on my "terms" (€ wise). But without luck. At last she gave in and its mine now. A piece of thinnish paper with some ink.

I've given it a proper mat and new frame. And I am quite happy.

last finds and NOID (4)

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Nice print, no maker. Recognizing this signature would do the artist honour. Maybe not to everyone's taste but very  nice woodcut print of a geranium in clay pot.

I read something like: Z..........maijer 35 or ......ending Burgmaijer ?


I love printhunting, haggling and dealing (to a very modest degree and always decently). I donot care if the maker is Vincent van Gogh or a complete nono. As long as the composition is appealing (aesthetic ?) and has enough "quality" to please. Me. There is nothing more to it really. And I love figuring out what and who is (or was) behind the signature. Their lives, careers etc..

Who has a clue or knows ?

last finds and NOID (3): H.J. ?

H.J. ?

Hopefully my Blog will one day atract some visitors who might know 1 or 2 things. 

My latest plan is to introduce a new type of postings: "last finds and NOID" on the Blog. Since I am both the owner and editor I think this is a great and wonderful idea. With a label attached it might even work better as the Blog grows.

These two unsigned (probably cut off when framed) but monogrammed prints, which I particularly like, have a maker that is untill now completely unknown to me. That is of no consequence neither for me enjoying them nor honest appriciation for this artist. But I believe a name to the monogram would do the artist honour. And most importantly, further investigations could be started. They are most probably of German origin (that's were they came from) but not a certainty. Maybe Dutch ?

I think these two prints are full of warmth and charm and have great class  Their measures aprox. 30 x 36 cm. (12" x 14,5"). I guess they originate from the 1920-'30's.

If you have any clue or idea about the maker, please send me an email or  comment.

last finds and NOID (2)

NOID 1

Looking for and bying old frames in fleamarkets for my rematting and framing enterprise I picked up a very neat square frame with a nice calanderplate. On the backside was an old artdealers and framingshop label from the Haque (Netherlands)

After removing the backing board this nice handpulled print came out, some pencil signing was hidden under the frame because there was no mat. I count 7 well preserved colors, 3 browns, 2 greens, red and gray.



I cannot make out what was written also because the lower part seems to have been cut of. A name, or something ending "print" ?

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NOID 2

The Drinker

My last Ebay bargain (postage exceeding purchase) I couldn't resist. From an English sketchbook probably, just 5 x 5,5 inches (11 x 12,5 cm). When he puts his glass down he'll start singing !

last finds and NOID (1): 1960's birds

Who ..........

made these wonderfull prints ? "Handdruck Holzschnitt". Nobody wanted them on Ebay. Can you imagine ? I very much would like to find out who the maker is. I really want to investigate this artist.

They are quite big: 40 x 50 cm, paper size 50 x 60 cm.

They are very related with personal childhood memories. Looking at them, rematted in matching pastelcolored board and with a simple but quality wooden frame they just "make my day". To me they have a very 1960's, Scandinavian "feel and atmosphere". The signature doesn't ring a bell, Densner /67, is what I make of it. But I still have no clue who that might have been.

On a shop wall on the wonderfull Island were we once lived I always enjoyed these 4 concrete wall decorations. I often tried persuading the shopkeeper selling them to me. Or, on the day of his retirement not to include them in the shop's inventory. The shop's gone now. And the owner. The birds flown ............ Memories. But for these pictures taken in just time.

1960's concrete wall decorations "birds"

"Gallerie Uniek", Hollum, Isle of Ameland, Netherlands