GREINER -1919 St John; 1926 St Matthew

Daniel Greiner (1872-1943) a sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and politician created 147 woodcuts for the so-called Greiner Bible – wordless but not a story.

Like many religious publications, the images illustrate high points in well known stories where the viewer already needs to know the story to follow the images.

1919 St. Johanis Evangelium (The Gospel of Saint John)

• Title: St. Johanis Evangelium, nach Holzschnitten/von Daniel Greiner
• Publisher: [Leipzig] : Verlag Rudolf Leonhard Hammon
• Publication Date: 1919
• Binding: Hardcover
• 4°. 27 cm
• 36 p. with woodcut title and 34 woodcut plates.
• 1 nn., 35 num., 1 nn. Bll., Illustr.-OPpbd.
• Images printed recto only
• Note: Wood engraving on cover and title page, Spine has title handwritten in black ink.
• Presumably this is an excerpt from Greiner’s bible.
• Based on the colophon – the images in this book do not appear to be printed from the blocks – they are reduced wood engravings, woodcuts, or linocuts.

1926 Das Matthäus-Evangelium (The Gospel of Saint Matthew)

• Title: Das Matthäus-Evangelium
• Imprint Jugenheim a.d. B. : Felsberg Verslag, 1926
• 48 pages : 53 illustrations (including cover & t.p.) ; 28 cm
• Images 11, 49, 51, 52 are reductions of large original cuts, with the exception of 11 from the ‘Neue Holzstichpassion.’ All the rest are printed from the original blocks.