Katalog der ... Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Berlin
This is a German exhibition catalogue issued in 1899 in Berlin by the Berliner Secession, the avant-garde artists' association, published by P. Cassirer for visitors to its show of modern German art. The pictures are loose black-and-white reproductions of drawings and prints: a crowded city street scene with hatched shadows, a portrait pair of a woman in a bonnet and a man in a top hat, a rider with a windblown cloak and dog, and a decorative woodcut of a figure among dense foliage. A designer might take their economical pen and ink hatching, and the tension between sketchy line and firm graphic silhouette.
