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Graphic Arts
Germany is considered the birthplace of graphic arts. Its tradition dates to the early 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Five centuries later, the Bauhaus movement continued Germany's outstanding reputation in modern graphics. Its graphic arts workshop joined the – until then – separate fields of commercial art and non-commercial graphic arts and discovered the elementary and forceful impact of woodcut techniques – a printing-form used to elegant effect by the German expressionists. In the 1960s, graphic artists began to use printing to make art affordable for everyone. They distributed their prints outside the established art market and sold them for relatively little money. This is no longer the case. Graphic arts are no longer merely for mass reproduction. Artists are attracted by the possibility of experimentation with techniques, characteristics, and the formal aesthetics of expression offered by this medium. The results are small print runs distributed through galleries and the common art trade. In recent years, graphic art was able to establish itself as a visual arts form respected by museums and collectors. Comprehensive inventories of modern graphics are exhibited in the graphics collections of all major art museums. Current trends in graphic arts indicate mixed forms of painting, graphics and collage, and lead to a resolution of the traditional separation of the various disciplines. In the new field of computer graphics this dissolution is even more evident: a global visual and virtual culture emerges here that combines traditional methods of typography and aesthetics with movement and computer-generated art. Links: General Information:  Graphic Arts in Germany (Goethe Institute) Print Rooms in Museums: Berlin: Munich
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