The collection of Oscar Hainauer
The Collection of Oscar Hainauer is a 1906 art catalogue printed in London at the Chiswick Press, compiled by Wilhelm von Bode from the private holdings of the Berlin collector Oscar Hainauer, who died in 1894, and written for collectors and scholars. The plates are sepia photographs of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and devotional objects, including a standing carved saint, a Gothic reliquary casket, Gothic monstrances, and a Madonna and Child in a carved frame. A designer might take from them the Gothic architectural vocabulary of pinnacles, tracery and niches, and the austere sepia tonality of early photographic plates.
