{"product_id":"animalia-fantasia-the-magical-worlds-fantastic-creatures-of-professor-anton-seder-slipcased","title":"ANIMALIA \u0026 FANTASIA The Magical Worlds \u0026 Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder Slipcased","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOversized, magenta leather with gilt embossing, inset round color images, gold page edges. \u003c\/strong\u003ePsychedelic starfish, omniscient owls, sinuous dragons, and bizarre imaginary sea creatures! A nearly unknown German professor of art drew this brilliant, almost mind-boggling portfolio of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt Nouveau-inspired images\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. The subjects often tip in the realm of fantasy. Every page is worth framing. This is the first time this work has been collected; this deluxe book includes close-up, high-resolution details that allow you to immerse yourself in Seder's beautiful and strange visions of creatures both real and imagined. From 1895-1899, Professor Anton Seder painstakingly labored to create a series of groundbreaking artworks depicting all manner of creatures magical and mundane.\n\nProfessor Seder was an educator and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts School) in Strasbourg from 1889 to 1915. During his tenure, he created a series of artworks exploring creatures from the realm of imagination, and creatures from our own world, all viewed through a unique and fantastic lens wherein the details of historical classical illustration converged beautifully with the aesthetics of Art Nouveau.\n\nOver the last century, Professor Seder's mind-blowing endeavors in imaginative illustration have become legendary among artists, and celebrated as some of the greatest artworks of any era by aficionados of Art Nouveau rarities. After more than a century, his body of work exploring \"The Animal in Decorative Art\" is finally being collected in a magnificent format, featuring high-quality photographs and scans taken from the large collection of artworks by Anton Seder held by the Century Guild Museum of Art.\n\n\u003cem\u003eI (Bud) discovered Seder’s astonishing work several years ago at a high-end Antiquarian Book Fair—a dealer from Amsterdam had brought in this huge, fabulous portfolio and I kept going back to his booth with friends, showing them the display of several of the plates. After doing this at two consecutive book fairs, I went over and we made a deal; it turned out it was also one of the dealer’s favorite works and he’s since turned up at least two or three more copies and also some of the full color original artwork!\u003c\/em\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eIt was not inexpensive, which is why I hadn’t snapped it up immediately upon seeing it. But I realized I could not walk away from it—I had to own it. That is why I am so pleased to see this first-ever book based on the work, so it can be shared with everyone! -Bud\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643819360542,"sku":"ANIMFD","price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/animfd-animalia-fantasia-anton-seder-book-2.jpg?v=1784520715","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/animalia-fantasia-the-magical-worlds-fantastic-creatures-of-professor-anton-seder-slipcased","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}