Katalog der ... Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Berlin
An exhibition catalogue issued in 1899 in Berlin by the Berliner Secession, the progressive artists' association, and published by P. Cassirer for visitors to its show of German art. The plates reproduce paintings in halftone, several printed sideways on the page, and one decorative initial letter A showing two putti reading a book. Designers can take from them the soft tonal shading and dense, painterly grey halftone typical of turn-of-the-century German fine art reproduction, along with a clean woodcut-style initial suited to decorative capitals.
