Geschichte der malerei
Geschichte der Malerei is a German-language survey of the history of painting by the art historian Richard Muther, published in Leipzig by K. Grethlein in 1909 for students and general readers of art. Its plates reproduce paintings in halftone: a riverbank scene with a figure in a boat, a crowded allegorical group, a nude seen from behind, a pharmacy laboratory fresco, and interiors with figures at a piano and in a loge. A designer might take from them the soft tonal layering of early impressionist landscape and the warm, dense crowd compositions of the period.
