In the early 19th century, artists and printers embraced the new medium of lithography, an innovative method to mass-produce and distribute images. Known for its collection of French prints and posters, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University has rich holdings of lithographs made over the course of the 1800s, including examples from lithographys early years in Paris to iconic colour posters from the 1890s. Invented around 1796, lithography introduced a new process and new opportunities for the creation and circulation of printed images. Artists, printers, and publishers embraced the new medium for its relative ease and economic advantages as compared with the established printmaking media of woodcut, engraving, and etching. Taking root in Paris around 1815 after the fall of Napoleons empire, the art and industry of lithography grew in tandem with the city, as it became Europes artistic and urban capital over the course of the nineteenth century. Lithographs played a distinct role in both documenting and advancing (and often satirizing) the various and competing art movements of the period as publishers responded to the unprecedented demand for printed images of all types. / Als Alois Senefelder um 1796 ein preiswertes und einfaches Steindruckverfahren erfand, das bald darauf in Paris "Lithographie" genannt wurde, ahnte er nicht, dass diese neue Technik zu einer autonomen Kunstform werden sollte. Die Lithografie ermöglichte Künstlern, Zeichnern und Verlegern, ihre grafischen Arbeiten schneller und in höheren Auflagen zu vervielfältigen und zu verbreiten, es entstanden Ikonen dieser Technik, wie die Moulin-Rouge-Plakate von Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 'Set in Stone' zeigt neben seinen Arbeiten zahlreiche Werke herausragender Künstler wie Théodore Géricault, Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Jules Chéret und Honoré Daumier.
In the early 19th century, artists and printers embraced the new medium of lithography, an innovative method to mass-produce and distribute images. Known for its collection of French prints and posters, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University has rich holdings of lithographs made over the course of the 1800s, including examples from lithographys early years in Paris to iconic colour posters from the 1890s. Invented around 1796, lithography introduced a new process and new opportunities for the creation and circulation of printed images. Artists, printers, and publishers embraced the new medium for its relative ease and economic advantages as compared with the established printmaking media of woodcut, engraving, and etching. Taking root in Paris around 1815 after the fall of Napoleons empire, the art and industry of lithography grew in tandem with the city, as it became Europes artistic and urban capital over the course of the nineteenth century. Lithographs played a distinct role in both documenting and advancing (and often satirizing) the various and competing art movements of the period as publishers responded to the unprecedented demand for printed images of all types. / Als Alois Senefelder um 1796 ein preiswertes und einfaches Steindruckverfahren erfand, das bald darauf in Paris "Lithographie" genannt wurde, ahnte er nicht, dass diese neue Technik zu einer autonomen Kunstform werden sollte. Die Lithografie ermöglichte Künstlern, Zeichnern und Verlegern, ihre grafischen Arbeiten schneller und in höheren Auflagen zu vervielfältigen und zu verbreiten, es entstanden Ikonen dieser Technik, wie die Moulin-Rouge-Plakate von Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 'Set in Stone' zeigt neben seinen Arbeiten zahlreiche Werke herausragender Künstler wie Théodore Géricault, Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Jules Chéret und Honoré Daumier.
