Help with German Etching Pls

hi all,

I’ve worked out that this depicts splittlertor Gate in Nuremberg (the easy part). Is this an etching and can anyone help on the signature?


Thanks a lot,
Sam

 

Schreuer?

 

I'll throw a guess in the hat:

Scheiner

 

Or Schiener.

 

Think AJ has got it. Schiener.

 

https://veryimportantlot.com/en/lot/view/the-main-market-in-nuremberg-schiener-152385

 

My dyslexia has reached a new owl.

 

What she said.

 

Bang on the Money Houseful!!

 

Looks like an etching. I believe the plate mark is visible. And the example of the artist's work that Houseful found is described as an etching. The technique of etching allows for delicate strokes, more like pencil or ink drawings. Engraving shows more deliberate lines and cross hatching.

 

Thanks guys

 

I agree.

 

I just found that the artist was Karl Schiener (1893-1963). There is a book about his work, Der Nürnberger Radierer Karl Schiener, available on the German Amazon site. If you look at the preview you can see the same signature in one of the pictures.
https://www.amazon.de/Nürnberger-Radierer-Karl-Schiener/dp/3871911879

 

Wow thanks so much for sharing @Figtree3

 

You're welcome, @samuelcaulfield1 .

 

Karl Schiener was first of all a bookseller that took over an older bookstore and small printing house on the marketplace (J.A. Stein). he lateron began to dabble at the art of copying older pictures.
after the "visit" by the RAF and US Airforce and after the rebuilding of Nürnberg (old center destroyed - appr. 95 %) as the first Disneyland in Germany, he sold tens of thousands of these prints to servicemen.
no real value.

 

It seems the only value of this one is the fun of the research

 

as a repeated visitor of Nürnberg - well over 20 visits over the years - for a simple overnight stop on my way to Prague and other eastern cities to several weeklong stays for researches in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum I didn't need further research in this case. the story of these tourist items is very well known in the city and the prints are found on all fleamarkets in the city and its surroundings.
P.S.: there is knowledge outside of google, just imagine...

 

My favorite kind of knowledge.