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Fantasia and Animalia, an Art Nouveau Bestiary: The Magical Worlds and Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder

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By Century Guild

From 1895-1899, Professor Anton Seder painstakingly labored to create a series of groundbreaking artworks depicting all manner of creatures magical and mundane. 

Psychedelic starfish and omniscient owls, intermingled with sinuous dragons and bizarre imaginary sea creatures! 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.

Fantasia and Animalia, an Art Nouveau Bestiary: The Magical Worlds and Fantastic Creatures of Professor Anton Seder 1886-1903 [Hardcover]

  • 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

Fantasia and Animalia, an Art Nouveau Bestiary: The Magical Worlds and 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.

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.