Protecteur d'amour
1876 to 1900
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woodcut
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1184
Art Historical Context
**Protecteur d'amour by Bernard Reder is captivating woodcut print from the late 19th centurycirca 1876–1900), housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection The evocative French title, translating to "Protector of Love," at themes of romance, guardianship, or symbolic affection, inviting viewers to ponder its emotional depth. As part of the Prints department (CG-W), this work exemplifies Reder's engagement with printmaking during a transformative era in graphic arts. Woodcuts, one of the oldest printmaking techniques, involve carving an image into a wooden block, inking the rai...
About the Artist
Bernard Reder
Bernard Reder (1897–1963), born in Czernowitz, Bukovina—then part of Austria-Hungary and a vibrant center of Jewish and Hasidic culture—was the son of a Jewish innkeeper. At age four, he began drawing, but World War I interrupted his youth when, at 17, he was conscripted into the Austrian army and served in the trenches. After the war, Reder enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studying...