From: lva (lva@pamho.net)
Date: 10/06/01-02:44:26 AM Z
>
> > "The Materials of the Artist & Their Use in Painting with Notes on
> > The Techniques of the Old Masters" by Max Doerner, professor in the
> > Academny of Fine Arts, Munich. My "revised edition", Harcourt Brace
> > & Co, is 1949, copyright 1934.
>
> Searching jacket & front pages I finally found "Malmaterial und seine
> Verwendung im Bilde," published 1921, up to a 5th edition, while his
> pupils at the Doerner Institute published up to 8th edition (as of
> 1949). The translator however avers that he has made "numerous
> corrections" of errors called to his attention.
>
> The jacket says that an appendix for those unfamiliar with the metric
> system is included... I daresay Americans are as bad in metric today
> as in '49.
Thanks, Judy. I have found it on the German amazon. They got the 19th
edition from 2001!
Brahma
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