Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 32. (Budapest, 2018)
Edit DARABOS: Blomstermarmor, klistermarmor. Modern Danish endpapers in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts
fessional writers highlighted how extraordinary Kyster’s paste and marbled papers were at the exhibitions of the time.45 Yet, Otto Eckmann was considered the European innovator46 of this ‘new’ marbling technique, almost certainly because of Mei- er-Graefe’s article, in which he attributed the most beautiful sheets to Eckmann.47 iar with them.50 Bruun came to the conclusion that they had both independently discovered the technique. However, as an introduction to his article, he published two reproductions that showed Kyster bindings covered in the new type of marbled papers. (Fig. 7) The endpapers of the two Poul M. Möller volumes housed in the 7. Half-leather bindings by Kyster, covered with paper with floral motifs and fantasy marbled paper. In: Vilhelm Bruun: Det er dog en dansk Opfindelse. Anker Kysters marmorerede Papir, Tidsskrift for Kunstindustri, 1898, no. 4,p.l4 Meier-Graefe’s opinion is reiterated almost word for word in Octave Uzanne’s book of 1897, L’art dans la decoration extérieure des livres,48 The German journal Illustrierte Zeitung für Buchbinderei also joined the debate. In its January and February issues, again the antecedence of Otto Eckmann was emphasized, with the explanation that the German artist had been experimenting for two years with the marbling technique.49 In his article of 1898, the Danish Vilhem Bruun attempted to stand in Kyster’s defence, noting that there was no way that Kyster could have copied Eck- mann’s papers, since he had not been familDesignmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen were made using marbled paper with floral motifs and paste paper.51 One of these volumes, with red morocco leather binding and paste paper endpapers, is dated to 1893; therefore, it is possible that it appeared in the Parisian exposition of 1894. The pattern for the endpapers, whose base colour is green, consists of freely winding clusters of lines.52 The collection of marbled papers housed in Budapest thus arrived in the museum just at the time the debate in the media was shaping against Kyster, but this is not the only reason the papers are important docu68
