Handbuch der Oelmalerei : nach dem heutigen Standpunkte
A German handbook of oil painting by Friedrich Jaennicke, published in Esslingen in 1906 by Paul Neff Verlag, written for working painters and students of the craft. Its pictures are plain black-and-white woodcut and engraving style: a helmeted profile head in a black square, an etched bookplate with a classical columned gateway, an open paintbox with tubes and brushes beside a moonlit mountain landscape, and a bronze statue of a muscular man lifting a ball. A designer could take the crisp black-and-white line work, the tidy trade-catalogue still lifes and the strong contrast of solid black shapes against white.
