Minneapolis Institute of Art

Garden Bouquet (Gartenstrauss)

Johanna Metzner

Date

20th century

Medium

Color woodcut and hand painting

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Johanna Metzner studied in Weimar, Germany, and is thought to have lived in nearby Erfurt. After printing Garden Bouquet, she went back in with a brush and added hand coloring to the blues and purples, and decorated the background with slashes of tan. Because woodcuts didn’t require a printing press, people could make them at home. They simply needed a knife, a block of wood or linoleum, inks, and a wooden spoon to rub along the back of the paper to transfer color from the inked block. Europe

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