Couples Tattoos
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Hermann Obrist, This unpublished Jugendstil embroidery comes from a private collection in Florence, where Hermann Obrist took up residence in 1892 and began his work as a designer of embroidery, in partnership with Berthe Ruchet. Very little is known about the earliest work by Obrist in this medium, but the similarity of this still relatively naturalistic design and its execution in silk threads on a silk panel, to Obrist's documented Munich embroideries of a few years later – including the…