Usage Note
Skizzenbuch is the notebook in which an artist makes rapid sketches, jots down ideas and practises observation. Leonardo da Vinci's surviving Skizzenbücher are among the most studied documents in the history of art.
Examples
"Sie füllte im Laufe des Jahres drei Skizzenbücher mit Naturstudien."
Natural Translation
Over the course of the year she filled three sketchbooks with studies from nature.
Literal Translation
In the course of the year she filled three sketchbooks with nature-studies.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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