Image series 49 / 2023: Playing Cards
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3 December 2023
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By: Bettina Pfleging
Playing cards have their origins in East Asia. Printed sheets of paper were made in China before the birth of Christ and initially served primarily mystical purposes. The earliest playing cards can be found in Korea and China in the twelfth century. It is not known which games were played with these cards. From China, playing cards traveled to India, Persia and the Arab countries and finally came to Europe, initially to Italy and France from the last third of the 14th century. Card games offered a wide variety of images that was not possible with other forms of games. German card makers in the 15th and 16th centuries mechanized the production of playing cards by inventing the woodcut process and using copperplate engraving. Traditional European playing cards are usually rectangular, handy pieces of cardboard or stiff paper that display values and symbols on the front and are blank or have a uniform motif on the back, so that the value of the turned card cannot be seen.
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Sport-quartet, Ausschnitt, karton, 2,3 × 6,9 × 10,2 cm, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Museum, Stadtmuseum Amsterdam
Peter Flötner. Kartenspiel des Peter Flötner, ca. 1540, Holzschnitt, koloriert, weiß gehöht und vergoldet, 10,5 × 5,9 cm, Nürnberg; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Jules Dépaquit. Le nouveau jeu, Le rire: journal humoristique, Ausschnitt, um 1898, Heidelberg; HeidICON – Französische Karikaturen, Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek
Meister der Spielkarten. Spielkarte (Nr. Drei) mit drei Reihern, ca. 1435-1455, 13,2 × 8,8 cm, Paris; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
La Dame de Bâtons [Spielkarte], ca. 1460, Holzschnitt, koloriert, vergoldet und geprägt, 19 × 9 cm; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Knave of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards, ca. 1475–80, Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold, 13,2 × 7 cm, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art
E. S. Krugljakova. Spielkarte Karo-Dame, Silhouette, Schwarzes Papier auf Karton aufgeklebt, 9,6 × 8,5 cm; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Koninklijke Hausemann en Hötte N.V. Poker, 1979, papier, 6,5 × 8,5 × 12,7 cm, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Museum, Stadtmuseum Amsterdam
