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Animalia & Fantasia: The Magical Worlds & Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder
Psychedelic starfish, omniscient owls, sinuous dragons, and bizarre imaginary sea creatures! Animalia & Fantasia: The Magical Worlds & Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder features full-page, full-color presentations of Seder's artwork as well as numerous close-up, high-resolution details that allow you to immerse yourself in Seder's beautiful and strange visions of creatures both real and imagined.
Animalia & Fantasia: The Magical Worlds & Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder 1886-1903 [Available in Hardcover and Slipcase editions]
- Large 10" x 13.25" size
- Faux leather hardcover for a textural "grimoire" feel
- Foil stamping on cover
- Resilient smyth-sewn binding
- Printed on heavy art paper
- Over 200 pages, featuring the complete Das Thier plates as well as numerous additional plates from Anton Seder's fantasy-inspired body of work
- Accompanying text by Thomas Negovan
All the images in this book are taken directly from original artworks in the Century Guild museum archive, and are printed at the absolute highest resolution possible. We take extensive care in our image processing and color correction to ensure that the artworks are presented with accuracy and detail.
About Professor Anton Seder
From 1895-1899, Professor Anton Seder painstakingly labored to create a series of groundbreaking artworks depicting all manner of creatures magical and mundane. Professor Anton Seder was an educator and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts School) in Strasbourg, France 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.
Over the last century, Professor Seder's mindblowing 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.
An Exhibition in Your Hands
All the images in this book are taken directly from the rare, original period artworks in the Century Guild collection, and are printed at the absolute highest resolution possible. We take extensive care in our image processing and color correction to ensure that the artworks are presented with accuracy and detail.
While many books rely heavily on the imaging practices of third parties, images featured in Century Guild books are faithfully captured directly from the original source materials.
Each of our books are a unique journey through over two decades of mindful collecting, curation, and original research, making these volumes true permanent exhibitions.
Product information
No cost is spared in producing our books with exceptional quality. Century Guild's painstaking material selection process pushes the limits of today's printing standards, often involving custom-dyed cover stocks, spot varnishing, and presentations inspired by luxurious antique books.
We use sturdy, reinforced packaging to protect your item(s) in transit. Every order is carefully inspected and packed personally by our team to ensure quality and guarantee the safe arrival of your books, artworks, and other items.
AVAILABLE IN TWO BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS
- Limited edition hardcover
- Large-format 9 in. x 12 in. book
- Foil stamping and spot varnish
- 128 pp, full color throughout
- All high-resolution, original source images
- Edition of 3000
- Limited edition hardcover
- Presented in cloth-wrapped, foil stamped slipcase
- Each book hand signed on tipped-in vellum sheet
- AP edition
- High-quality midnight-black fabric slipcase debossed in red with Bernhard Pankok's 1896 Sphinx Moth illustration
The greatest fantasy illustrator you've never heard of
Rare artworks you won't find online
While the internet is a magnificent repository of data, at Century Guild we still love curling up with books! And many–if not most–of the images presented here are not available on the internet at all. Each image was captured from the original artwork, professionally photographed and meticulously color corrected, and printed for you to enjoy at the highest resolution possible.
