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Modern City, 1949

  • woodcut, paper
  • 319 x 451 mm
  • Inv. 1949-BA-15

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Artist

Frans Masereel RKD VIAF Wikidata
Blankenberge 1889 - Avignon 1972
woodcutters (printmakers)AAT

Title Modern City
Date 1949
Period 20th century
Medium and support woodcut AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings monogram and year bottom left: FM 1949
signature and year bottom right, outside the depiction: Frans Masereel / 1949
title and edition outside the depiction, bottom left: Modern City 17/20
number bottom right: 1000
Collection print room
Object type woodcut AAT
Inventory number 1949-BA-15
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1949-BA-15
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7932/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11K devil(s) and demons Iconclass
25I city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Iconclass
25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass
31A2245 hand Iconclass
31A25331 pointing to the forehead with the index finger Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass
41A144 flat-building, apartment house Iconclass
41A15 skyscraper Iconclass
45C15(ARROW) archer's weapons: arrow Iconclass
46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Modernist AAT
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