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| Keywords: heliogravure photo-etching photoetching nature drawing sketch gravure hubertine-heijermans hubertineheijermans printmaker graveur taille-douce tailledouce beans macro-photo macrophoto photo musée de l'elysée lelysée lausanne switzerland etching light-sensitive lightsensitive large-beans largebeans print printed 1981 on.paper onpaper fabriano.italian.paper fabrianoitalianpaper arches.french archesfrench paper rives.french.paper rivesfrenchpaper umbria.italian.paper umbriaitalianpaper pescia.italian.paper pesciaitalianpaper Of the beans bought at the market-place a photo was made and used for an etching, when transferred on a light-sensitive plate. All this is delicate work and needs a photo lab, an aqua-tint box filled with rosin particles and of course a complete Printing Studio, where one can print the result on a press. The artist never used an electrically driven press as a hand.driven press gives a deeper print, more delicate yet with stronger blacks. And she also never let somebody else print her work. The advantage was that she printed limited editions after only a few artist proofs, maximum 10. But that makes the work more precious. And indeed, her photo-etchings were accepted in the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, which for a photographer is already an honor - as this Museum is a PHOTO museum. In 1993 it was Monsieur Charles Henri Favrod who made a total list of 45 photo-etchings and also added 1 plate of one of the photo-etchings: an etching in a style approaching Conceptual Art. A last hint: one step before this final modern photo-etching technic became rejuvenated, actualized and perfected existed the 'old' or ancient Daguerro type photographic printmaking. En français: le 'Cabinet cantonal des estampes' du Musée Jenisch à Vevey garde 50 gravures sur bois, eaux-fortes ou lithographies sur la pierre de la main de l'artiste, qui a en effet imprimé chaque gravure elle-même, donc il fallait des éditions limitées, mais également où d'autres ateliers connues en Suisse francophones utilisaient des presses électrique, Hubertine Heijermans a imprimé sur toujours et le tout sur sa presse NON électrique, comme elle en avait dans son Studio dans le Canton de Vaud, de la marque Bendini-Bologna. Ensuite elle a également été la seule à choisir le papier le plus noble et donc le plus cher, car venant de la France ou de l'Italie, selon ses commandes à elle seule: il s'agissait des marques Arches, Rives de la France, Fabriano, Umbria et Pescia (Italien). Of the beans bought at the market-place a photo was made and used for an etching, when transferred on a light-sensitive plate. All this is delicate work and needs a photo lab, an aqua-tint box filled with rosin particles and of course a complete Printing Studio, where one can print the result on a press. The artist never used an electrically driven press as a hand.driven press gives a deeper print, more delicate yet with stronger blacks. And she also never let somebody else print her work. The advantage was that she printed limited editions after only a few artist proofs, maximum 10. But that makes the work more precious. And indeed, her photo-etchings were accepted in the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, which for a photographer is already an honor - as this Museum is a PHOTO museum. In 1993 it was Monsieur Charles Henri Favrod who made a total list of 45 photo-etchings and also added 1 plate of one of the photo-etchings: an etching in a style approaching Conceptual Art. A last hint: one step before this final modern photo-etching technic became rejuvenated, actualized and perfected existed the 'old' or ancient Daguerro type photographic printmaking. En français: le 'Cabinet cantonal des estampes' du Musée Jenisch à Vevey garde 50 gravures sur bois, eaux-fortes ou lithographies sur la pierre de la main de l'artiste, qui a en effet imprimé chaque gravure elle-même, donc il fallait des éditions limitées, mais également où d'autres ateliers connues en Suisse francophones utilisaient des presses électrique, Hubertine Heijermans a imprimé sur toujours et le tout sur sa presse NON électrique, comme elle en avait dans son Studio dans le Canton de Vaud, de la marque Bendini-Bologna. Ensuite elle a également été la seule à choisir le papier le plus noble et donc le plus cher, car venant de la France ou de l'Italie, selon ses commandes à elle seule: il s'agissait des marques Arches, Rives de la France, Fabriano, Umbria et Pescia (Italien). | ||||
