Klassischer Bilderschatz
Klassischer Bilderschatz is a German photographic reproduction album of European paintings, compiled by Franz von Reber and Adolph Bayersdorfer and published in Munich in 1889 for art students and scholars. Its plates are sepia-toned photogravures, each captioned with the painter's name, school and date, and printed rotated on the page. A designer could take compositional lessons from them: crowded multi-figure narratives, dense draped groupings, and arched or framed picture fields.
