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Rembrandt fecit – Liepmann gedruckt. Oil-painting in the age of mechanical printing
Trnková, Petra
On January 16, 1839, a short report appeared in the Preußische Staats-Zeitung announcing the possibility of perfect mechanical reproduction of oil paintings. The news, which soon spread to other countries through the local press, was about the invention of the Berlin painter Jacob Liepmann – the so-called Ölgemälde-Druck. The paper aims not only to recall the forgotten invention and its creator and to clarify Liepmann’s principle of mechanical reproduction of oil paintings, but also to shed light on the circumstances of its development, publication, existence and early demise. In addition, attention is paid to contemporary discussions on the topic of perfect, fast and easy reproduction of a painting and to the problem of making the works of old maters accessible to the public.

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