The Language of Line: Chinese Writing, German Speech, and the Visual Poetics of John Winkler’s San Francisco Chinatown Etchings, 1916–1921

The Language of Line: Chinese Writing, German Speech, and the Visual Poetics of John Winkler’s San Francisco Chinatown Etchings, 1916–1921

John W. Winkler (1894–1979) was born in Vienna and immigrated to the United States as a young man. Arriving in San Francisco in 1912, he studied with the painter and printmaker Frank Van Sloun at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and by the 1920s, he was an internationally celebrated etcher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louise Siddons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Panorama
Subjects:
1.1
jon w. winkler
louise siddons
twentieth-century art
works on paper
Online Access: https://journalpanorama.org/article/the-language-of-line-chinese-writing-german-speech-and-the-visual-poetics-of-john-winklers-san-francisco-chinatown-etchings-1916-1921/

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