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15-501: The club was named in honor of Aloys Senefelder , who in 1796 invented the lithographic process. The process was slow in development and even slower in gain acceptance in the art world. At the turn of the century, it began to flower and to be considered as an art form in its own right. The principles of lithography are still in practice around the world today. The club provided a forum for the artists to meet and exchange information on this heretofore semi-secret process. Further, it provided

30-499: A general trade publisher in the mid-1970s. The name "Da Capo" is an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning," often used in sheet music to indicate that a piece should be repeated from the start. It was sold to the Perseus Books Group in 1999 after Plenum was sold to Wolters Kluwer . In the last decade, its production has consisted of mostly nonfiction titles, both hardcover and paperback, focusing on history, music,

45-881: A means to instruct artists and their patrons that lithography was an art as well as a craft. In 1909, Ernest Jackson , A.S. Hartrick , and James Kerr-Lawson called a meeting to form a society for the artist lithographer and in the following year, the Senefelder Club was formed. Joseph Pennell was elected President and Hartrick, Jackson and Kerr-Lawson formed the Committee. John Copley (1875-1950) and Ethel Gabain soon joined (and married in 1913), followed by Frank Brangwyn , Spencer Pryse , Charles Shannon , Augustus John , William Rothenstein . C.W.R. Nevinson , Claude Sheperson, E. J. Sullivan , Edmund Blampied and many other notable artists. Foreign members included Théophile Steinlen , Jean-Louis Forain , and Henri Matisse . In 1958

60-426: A successful play Connoisseur of Girls . Problems with the printing of his play Mathilde von Altenstein caused him to fall into debt, and unable to afford to publish a new play he had written, Senefelder experimented with a novel etching technique using a greasy, acid resistant ink as a resist on a smooth fine-grained stone of Solnhofen limestone . He then discovered that this could be extended to allow printing from

75-521: Is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts . It is now an imprint of Hachette Books . Founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of Plenum Publishers, as of 2009 it had additional offices in New York City , Philadelphia , Los Angeles , and Emeryville, California . The year prior, Da Capo Press had net sales of over $ 2.5 million. Da Capo Press became

90-583: The Club was renamed the Senefelder Group when members included Edward Ardizzone , James Fitton , Phyllis Ginger and Henry Trivick , who was then Chairman. The Group seems to have held their last exhibition in 1961. The British watercolorist and lithographer Anthony Raine Barker was an enthusiastic supporter and member of the club's committee in the 1920s. Aloys Senefelder Johann Alois Senefelder (6 November 1771 – 26 February 1834)

105-476: The artist could now draw directly onto the plate with familiar pens. As early as 1803 André published in London a portfolio of artists lithographs, entitled Specimens of Polyautography . In 1837, lithography had been further developed to allow full colour printing from multiple plates, and chromolithography was the most important technique in colour printing until the introduction of process colour . Senefelder

120-887: The composer Franz Gleißner he started a publishing firm in 1796 using lithography. The value of the new cheap and exact reproduction process was recognized early by land surveying offices across Europe. Senefelder was appointed 1809 to be the Inspector of a new Institution set up for this purpose in Bavaria called the "Lithographic Institute" (Lithographische Anstalt) in Munich. Similar Institutions were subsequently set up under his supervision in Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna. He secured patent rights across Europe and publicized his findings in 1818 in Vollstandiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerei which

135-529: The flat surface of the stone alone, the first planographic process in printing. He joined with the André family of music publishers and gradually brought his technique into a workable form, perfecting both the chemical processes and the special form of printing press required for using the stones. He called it "stone printing" or "chemical printing", but the French name "lithography" became more widely adopted. And with

150-469: The performing arts, sports, and popular culture. In 2003, Lifelong Books was founded as a health and wellness imprint. When Marlowe & Company became part of the imprint in 2007, Lifelong's range was expanded to include the New Glucose Revolution series and numerous diabetes titles, as well as books on healthful cooking, psychology, personal growth, and sexuality. In 2009 the company placed

165-556: The science portion of the book Jetpack Dreams on the web for free. In April 2016, Da Capo Press was acquired by the Hachette Book Group as part of Hachette's purchase of the Perseus Books Group. After the sale, sister imprint Seal Press became a Da Capo imprint. In 2018, Da Capo became an imprint of Hachette Books and Seal became an imprint of Basic Books . This article about a United States publishing company

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180-624: Was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s. Born Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder in Prague , then capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia , where his actor father was appearing on stage. He was educated in Munich and won a scholarship to study law at Ingolstadt . The death of his father in 1791 forced him to leave his studies to support his mother and eight siblings, and he became an actor and wrote

195-674: Was decorated by King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria and a statue of him stands in the town of Solnhofen , where lithographic stone is still quarried. A statue of Alois Senefelder by sculptor Rudolf Pohle was erected in 1892 in what was then known as Thusneldaplatz in Berlin. The name of the square was changed to Senefelderplatz in 1894. An U-Bahn station named Senefelderplatz was opened in 1913. Alois Senefelder's contribution ranks alongside William Ged 's invention of stereotyping , Friedrich Koenig 's steam press and Ottmar Mergenthaler 's linotype machine in its innovative effect. It made printing more affordable and available to more people, and

210-622: Was important in art and newspaper printing. Senefelder lived to see his process become widely adopted both for art printmaking and as the dominant method of pictorial reproduction in the printing industry. He died in Munich , where he is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof . Several plant taxa have been named after him as well. The genus of Senefeldera Mart. 1841 (in the Euphorbiaceae family). and of Senefelderopsis Steyerm. 1951 (Euphorbiaceae). Da Capo Press Da Capo Press

225-493: Was translated in 1819 into French and English. A Complete Course of Lithography combined Senefelder's history of his own invention with a practical guide to lithography, and remained in print as recently as 1977 ( Da Capo Press ). Senefelder was also able to exploit the potential of lithography as a medium for art . Unlike previous printmaking techniques, such as engraving, that required advanced craft skills, lithography facilitated greater accuracy and textural variety, because

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