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Woman Combing her Hair (orig. Sich kämmende Frau) - Wooden Relief

Karl Schmid1940/1949

USI Università della Svizzera italiana

USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland

In the relief, one can admire the mastery with which Karl Schmid carved the wood to bring out the thin, flowing lines that define the two female figures, until it achieves in the woodcut print the same purity as a sign drawn in ink.

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  • Title: Woman Combing her Hair (orig. Sich kämmende Frau) - Wooden Relief
  • Creator: Karl Schmid, Karl Schmid
  • Date Created: 1940/1949, 1940/1949
  • Location Created: Zurich, Canton Zurich - Switzerland
  • Physical Dimensions: 26 x 22,5 cm
  • Type: Relief
  • Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) released by Fondazione Karl Schmid
  • Medium: wood
  • Art Genre: xylographic matrix
  • Art Form: Relief
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