Date:
05.04.2024 19:12
A contribution by
designyoutrust.com
German-American artist Henry Jerome Schile was born in Oberharmersbach, Baden-Württemberg, in 1829. He emigrated to the US in 1851 and worked in New York in the middle of the 19th century.
h/t: vintag.es
Henry Schile’s work is described by Harry T. Peters in America on Stone as: “Though often German in source or character, often bearing titles in foreign languages, for the convenience of immigrants, and invariably and outrageously crude in conception, composition, drawing, and lithography, Schile’s prints are undoubtedly American in spirit, because they so vividly represent the ‘melting pot’ from which they came and for which they were made. … They did an extremely large quantity, all folios. I have never seen a small print by them, which is quite unique. Most of Schile’s prints are on heavy black paper. But they appear on all types of paper from the thinnest to the very thickest. The coloring is so crude in many that it beggars description. When asked who made the best once, I declined to answer, but replied that quite surely Schile made the worst. Yet in spite of that they have real spirit of lithography.”
72-year-old Henry Schile passed away in New York in 1901.
Latest Posts
05.04.2024 21:18
Vintage Photos That Show Lifestyle of Young People in the 1970s
02.04.2024 16:02
It’s Time for the Pulp Literature Issue 42 Poetry Round-Up!
02.04.2024 15:00
The Screaming Pope releases two groundbreaking new albums in March
08.04.2024 20:49
This Photo Series Sheds Light On The Taboo Of People’s Lives With Stoma
23.03.2024 18:56
City of the Living Dead – Arrow Video
10.04.2024 12:48
Comments