2 Rare Antique Folio Prints - Frederic Hottenroth ' Franzosen' and 'Neiderlander' Circa 1880.
Good overall condition, some yellowing of the paper, and age spots, You will receive the item pictured, so the pictures are integral to the condition report and listing.
Original Antique French Folio Prints from Friedrich Hottenroth's 'Mittelalter'.
This is 1880 German Edition, printed in Stuttgart, Germany by Druck and Seeger - Not a modern reproduction, these are original 19th Century Lithograph Prints.
Approx Size of art framed 13.75" x 17" (inches)
Approx Visible Size of Print 10.25" x8" (inches)
Friedrich Hottenroth
(born February 6, 1840 in Johannesburg , † May 26, 1917 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German folk and folklorist, lithographer , painter and author .
After a high school visit made possible by a scholarship, Hottenroth began autodidactically with drawing . Between 1873 and 1877 he worked as an illustrator for Wilhelm Zimmermann's Illustrated History of the German People . In 1879 he began his work on the German national costumes, the richly illustrated manual of the German costume followed after its completion in 1892 until 1902 still the three volumes to the German national costumes .
Hottenroth illustrated his costumes descriptions himself. For this he went with his drawing utensils on longer hikes over the villages. His last work were the 1912 published Altfrankfurter costumes . He remained unmarried for life and died impoverished in a home for destitute artists.
