Norbertine Bresslern-Roth: The Gazelle Hunt, c. 1928. Color linocut on Japan paper, 23,2 x 28 cm (plate). Inscribed "Handdruck" and signed im pencil by the artist.
The Austrian artist Norbertine Bresslern-Roth did not belong to any of the numerous "isms" that flourished in the interwar period. Her preferred printing technique was, as with the Grosvenor School founded by Claude Flight, the color linocut, which she mastered with virtuosity. Significantly, her works were the first to be recognized in England, where a monograph on her was published in 1930 that is still considered a standard work today. Famous for her depictions of animals, she created a whole series of picturesque desert motifs during a trip to North Africa in 1928.
