Fiddler Weissenburg Lithograph #9 Style:France, c. 1890s Wood Block 2004

Wood Block 2004

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Jana Hlaváčová

this brilliant travel poster promotes tourism using French railroads

Peter Albin

Fiddler Weissenburg Lithograph #9 Style:France, c. 1890s Wood Block 2004An Alsatian fiddler stands, fiddle in hand, with cartoonish pink and white striped pants. Buckhardts studio was located in Weissenburg, in the Alsace region of France, along the French border to Germany. Burckardt created these imaginative lithographs between the late 1800s to the early 1900s, and they quickly became known as the new media of the 1900s. Among the whimsical prints, caricatures of politicians, fairy tale characters, and personified