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Pa. German Fraktur

Albert Levone

National Gallery of Art

The image is a painting featuring a central circle filled with German text surrounded by intricate floral and geometric motifs in red, blue, yellow, and green hues. The rest of the artwork includes symmetrical floral designs, stylized blooms, leaves, decorative borders, circular motifs, heart shapes with text inside, and shield-like elements with stripes and floral extensions. This is in the style of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur art.

Artwork Details

Date
1935/1942
Medium
watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper
Dimensions
3699 × 3086 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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