Wesen und technik der malerei; ein handbuch für künstler und kunstfreunde von Ernst Kiesling;
A German-language handbook on the nature and technique of painting, written by Ernst Kiesling for artists and art lovers and published in Leipzig in 1908. Its plates are reproductions of old master and nineteenth-century paintings, printed rotated on the page: a Rembrandt-style interior with a crowd around a figure, a Raphael fresco with a crowded classical gathering framed in a lunette, a genre scene of figures in a domestic room, and a dramatic group of men in dark robes. A designer can take compositional lessons from their crowded groupings, strong chiaroscuro and diagonal arrangements of figures.
