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8 unusual facts about Lithography


Amalgamated Lithographers of America

The Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA) is a labor union formed in 1882 to represent professional lithographers.

Atrani

M. C. Escher's first depiction of Atrani was his early and realistic work Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, a lithograph first printed in August 1931.

Charles Keeping

--International Exhibition of Lithography; presumably that is the-->Fifth International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography in Cincinnati.

Dahlgren Affair

Surviving records include transcripts of the documents, which were published in several newspapers, photographs of them that were provided by Lee to Union general George Meade for investigation, and a lithograph based on the photographs that was made in Europe where Confederate agents circulated the document to stir up sympathy for their cause.

Idem Paris

Filmed at the eponymous Idem Paris, a fine art printing studio in Paris, France, and "virtually wordless", it documents the lithographic process.

Iraqi Swiss dinar

The first is that the printing plates for the currency came from Switzerland, although the notes were actually printed in the United Kingdom.

Robert Colquhoun

Colquhoun was also a prolific printmaker, producing a large number of lithographs and monotypes throughout his career.

Semiconductor International

Regular news and feature articles covered topics including Wafer Processing, Lithography, Yield Management, Metrology, Semiconductor Packaging and Wafer Cleaning.


Aleksander Orłowski

In 1802, after the Partitions of Poland, he moved to Russia, where he became a pioneer of lithography.

BCMaterials

Specific facilities are a clean room for thin film deposition and nanolithography, Sputtering, Pulsed Laser Deposition and Spin Coating as well as lift-off and RIE facilities for lithography, profilometry, Atomic/Magnetic Force Microscopy, SQUID and Magneto Optical Kerr Effect (MOKE) magnetometry, etc.

Chromolithography

A. Hoen & Co., led by German immigrant August Hoen, were a prominent lithography house now known primarily for its stunning E.T. Paull sheet music covers.

Eleanor Coen

With a close friend, artist Pablo O'Higgins, Max and Eleanor went to San Miguel de Allende where Max set up a litho studio and taught lithography at the School of Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Greek Street

The noted Victorian sheet music lithographer Alfred Concanen was living at No. 66 with his wife and children in 1861.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere

Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror is a lithograph print by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1935.

Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath

Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.

Henry Trivick

He was a visiting instructor at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) where he taught Spencer the art of lithography.

He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, later teaching lithography there.

Jean-Jacques Champin

Jean-Jacques Champin, a French painter in water-colours and lithographer, was born at Sceaux in 1796.

Joseph Smit

In 1866 he was invited to Britain by Philip Sclater to do the lithography for Sclater's Exotic Ornithology.

Julie Maroh

She got two diplomas there, in Visual arts (comics option) in the Institut Saint-Luc and in Lithography/Engraving at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels.

Lung on a chip

The device was created using a microfabrication strategy known as soft lithography that was pioneered by George M. Whitesides, an American chemist, who is a professor of chemistry at Harvard, as well as a Wyss Institute core faculty member.

Max Rosenthal

In 1847 he went to Paris, where he studied lithography, drawing, and painting with M. Thurwanger, with whom he came to Philadelphia in 1849, and completed his studies.

Mourlot Studios

Starting in the 1920s, Jules' son, Fernand Mourlot, converted one of the locations into a studio dedicated to printing fine art lithography.

Proton beam writing

Proton beam writing (or p-beam writing) is a direct-write lithography process developed by Frank Watt and colleagues at the Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA), Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.

Rodolfo Hurtado

In 1969, he won a grant from the French government to study in Europe where he learned graphic design with Paul Colin and lithography in Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17.

Salomon van Abbé

He studied at London County Council Schools, the People’s Palace, Toynbee Hall, Central School of Art and at the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography at Bolt Court where he met Edmund Blampied, Robert Charles Peter and John Nicolson, all fellow etchers.

Soft lithography

In technology, soft lithography refers to a family of techniques for fabricating or replicating structures using "elastomeric stamps, molds, and conformable photomasks".

Veldhoven

Veldhoven is home to the headquarters of the manufacturer of high-tech (semiconductor) lithography equipment ASML.

Walter Crane

Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers had lithographic reproductions of Crane's line drawings washed in with watercolour; he also decorated in colour The Wonder Book of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Deland's Old Garden.

William Kurtz

Born in Hesse, Germany, he was apprenticed to a lithographer in Offenbach am Main at a young age and showed considerable artistic talent, taking first place in exhibitions while attending an art school there.


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