Buch No. 3

During an ongoing research project on the history of tattooing, with a focus on Christian Warlich (1891−1964), an album of designs by the Hamburg tattooist Karl Finke was stumbled upon at the Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde in Dresden. This album is now to be published in conjunction with an accompanying text. The volume has been conceived and designed in cooperation with the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

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The album of Karl Finke’s designs is being published in order to:

- Make it accessible to the public
- Make the research readily available

The target audience:

- People interested in tattooing
- Tattoo artists
- Collectors
- Researchers (e.g. art historians, cultural anthropologists, historians)
- Book lovers

Neither tattoo aficionados nor academics were aware that an album of Karl Finke’s designs was still in existence.

The rediscovery of the album at the Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde is of great importance in terms of research into German tattoo history, especially since few comparable early twentieth-century hand-drawn albums of designs have survived.

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The following costs will be incurred during the creation of the book:

- Book concept and design
- reproductions (photos of Finke's flash book, 82 pages)
- image processing
- author's royalty
- translation
- transliteration
- lectorate
- video production
- image rights
- printing costs
- administration (ISBN etc.)
- courier costs
- production of rewards (pin, t-shirt, bag, flash)
- packing and shipping
- Startnext provision and transaction charge

Ole Wittmann studied art history, social and cultural anthropology and sociology in Hamburg.

In 2015, he completed his doctorate on the human body as an image carrier for tattoos (see www.tattoos-in-der-kunst.de). From 2009 to 2012, he was a research associate at the Arno Schmidt Stiftung and in 2015/16 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. He is also active in the field of exhibitions and lectured at the University of Hamburg.

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