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Cranach Press:
Writer and arts patron, Harry Kessler, founded the Cranach Press in 1913 in Weimar, Germany, and commissioned Edward Gordan Craig, a noted English theatrical designer, to illustrate a magnificent edition of Hamlet. Craig designed and cut the woodcuts used for both the German (1928) and English (1930) editions. Special type was also designed for this work, now considered one of the finest examples of the book arts movement. Square and rectangular woodblocks displayed here mimic Craig's modern stage set for the influential Moscow ArtTheatre production of Hamlet in 1911-1912. |