Around 1930, a small group of well-known pewter figure collectors around Raoul Gerard and Otto Gottstein began a unique project. They planned to create a "central archive for documentation on pewter figures" in Switzerland. They began to collect all available designs and drawings of already engraved or still planned pewter figures and had them coloured by the best painters of the time, such as Krischen, Madlener, Douchkine, Rossi and Thaon. The painting was based on the most careful studies and is still as colourful and meticulous today as it was seven decades ago. The plates offer a unique overview of the most beautiful series and individual figures from around the mid-1930s, the "golden years" of the Kulturhistorische Zinnfigur. Through the research of the Swiss collector Bernhard Eggimann, these treasures have been brought back to the light of day and at the end of 2003 Edition Krannich began publishing them.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Eggimann, B./Krannich, E.
Title
Miniaturen II. Band 2: Altertum und Antike
Details
Ca. 500 colour miniatures on 59 colour plates. 66 pp.
