The Giaour: Title Page
1932
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color etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7387
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Giaour: Title Page*, striking 1932 color etching Hungarian artist Imre Reiner, in the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection. print serves as the title page for an edition of Lord Byron's Romantic poem *The Giaour*, a of love, vengeance, and cultural clash set in the Ottoman world. Reiner, a master of modernist graphic design active in interwar Europe, captures the poem's exotic, brooding atmosphere through intricate linework and vivid hues, blending Eastern motifs with Western precision. Crafted as a color etching—a technically demanding medium where ink is applied in layers ...
About the Artist
Imre Reiner
**Imre Reiner** (1900–1987) was a Hungarian-born Swiss painter, graphic artist, typographer, and master illustrator whose multifaceted career bridged sculpture, experimental typography, and exquisite wood engravings. Born on August 18, 1900, in Versec (now Vršac, Serbia) to a Jewish family—his father a sculptor and stone carver who apprenticed him young—Reiner began formal studies at age 15 in scu...