Three children standing by a Christmas tree
Print
1919 (made)
1919 (made)
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Print depicting three children standing by a Christmas tree.
Object details
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| Title | Three children standing by a Christmas tree (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | linocut print on paper |
| Brief description | Three children standing by a Christmas tree, linocut, Steffi Krauss, Austria, 1919 |
| Physical description | Print depicting three children standing by a Christmas tree. |
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| Gallery label | Professor Franz Cižek, a Viennese educator and painter, encouraged children to express themselves artistically. He capitalised on lino’s cheapness and ease of working to encourage instinctive and direct expression in his school art classes. Displays of his pupil's work caused a sensation. His methods were soon adopted worldwide, and lino developed an enduring association with art education in schools.(August 2019) |
| Credit line | Given by Professor Cizek |
| Object history | Steffi Krauss was a student in Professor Franz Cizek's Jugendkunstklasse. Professor Cizek (1865-1946) was initially a genre and portrait painter but became involved with the reform of art education in the early 20th Century. He saw the artistic individuality of a child as characterized by instinctual responses and based his teaching theory around this. In 1897 he founded a school called the Jugendkunstklasse ('Children's art class') for children from the age of three upwards, and in 1904 it was incorporated into the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he taught until 1934. |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1923, London: Board of Education, 1925. |
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| Accession number | E.3327-1923 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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