Katalog der ... Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Berlin
This exhibition catalogue was issued by the Berliner Secession, the Berlin artists' association, and published by Paul Cassirer in Berlin in 1899 for visitors to its show of German painting. Its plates are halftone reproductions of paintings, some rotated on the page: a dim interior study of a figure in a gallery of vague forms, a close view of a woman's head and shoulders, a hay-harvest scene of two women in white in a barn, and a crowded tavern-like scene of men and women. A designer could take from them the loose, tonal brushwork and low-key palette of early German modernism, with soft grey values and blurred edges.
