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weiss erhöht

English translation: white accents / white highlights

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German term or phrase:weiss erhöht
English translation:white accents / white highlights
Entered by: Rachel Ward

11:44 Feb 1, 2012
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / illustration caption for art book
German term or phrase: weiss erhöht
This is the caption for an illustration from a book on the life of Klimt.

"Liegender Akt. 1886-87, schwarzer Bleistift, **weiß erhöht**. Studie zum Dionysosaltar. Grafische Sammlung Albertina, Wien."

I am sure there's a standard techical term for this in English. Can anybody help?

Thanks!
Rachel Ward
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:18
white accents / white highlights
Explanation:
in running text, accented in/with white or highlighted in white

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Note added at 9 mins (2012-02-01 11:54:08 GMT)
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Or accentuated in white, but I wouldn't use these for a caption. I would just put 'white accents'.

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Note added at 28 mins (2012-02-01 12:13:30 GMT)
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Sunset in a Wood is an excellent example of how the exemplary Van Ruisdael depicted the interior of an untamed forest. Straight white accents indicate reflections in the pond in the middle foreground. This pond is also the nucleus of the picture and its only flat surface. On the right two stems of dead trees have fallen into the pond and rest in an oblique position. On the left only the trunk of another tree is still standing, with the mossy terrain behind it uneven and becoming hilly in the background. It is overgrown with wild brushwood from which giant trees rise high up, their unruly crowns silhouetted against the gloomy sky.
http://www.oldmasters.net/nsa-ruisdael-sunset.html

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Note added at 30 mins (2012-02-01 12:14:45 GMT)
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12 (anon). Old Mother Bunny. Akron, Ohio, USA: Saalfield Co.;
(1915); two thin card shaped cream coloured pages, with full colour on
outside "cover" pages and on inner spread, the other pages in blue
outline and type and white accents on the illustrations; approx.
10.6x5.5". On the both covers, a large and determined mother bunny,
with red shoes and a manic expression, attacks a carrot with her paring
knife; inside, on plain pages, are period drawings of clothed rabbits,
on the center spread are two copies from Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit
(with a kindly mother!) and a naturalistic rabbit family.
VG; spine is rubbed through colour and split 1" at the bottom, exterior
a bit toned, ow very bright, clean, unwrinkled and unmarked. $55
http://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/catalogues-lists/catalogue-...

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Note added at 31 mins (2012-02-01 12:16:27 GMT)
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Sous bois, 1862
Black chalk and white highlights on toned
paper
9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in. (24 x 18.4 cm)
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New
York (1971.77)
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/pdfs/TJM_Pissarro-...

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Note added at 37 mins (2012-02-01 12:21:49 GMT)
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I tend to take Christies or Sothebys as my guide when I translate art catalogues and auction catalogues: http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2009/i...

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Note added at 38 mins (2012-02-01 12:22:59 GMT)
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http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2006/f...

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Note added at 40 mins (2012-02-01 12:25:13 GMT)
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Leonardo da Vinci and Studio, "Head of a Child in Three Quarter View", ca. 1472-82, 5 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (134 x 119 mm), metalpoint highlighted in white gouache; extensive studio-reworking with pen, brush, brown wash. Paris, Louvre.
http://www.klinegallery.com/Verrocchio01.html

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2012-02-02 15:45:05 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Rachel - that's what I had in mind.
Selected response from:

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:18
Grading comment
I will go with this as it fits the space better. Thanks to you both, though!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +8white accents / white highlights
Helen Shiner
4 +5heightened with white
Joanna Scudamore-Trezek
Summary of reference entries provided
mit Weiß erhöhen
Johanna Timm, PhD

Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
heightened with white


Explanation:
I regularly translate art catalogues and this is our agreed English translation for the term.
Hope this helps.


    Reference: http://www.theresapergal.com/large5d.htm
    Reference: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Watercolor/1939/Women-...
Joanna Scudamore-Trezek
Austria
Local time: 00:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner: Though it is only one way of saying it.
16 mins
agree  BrigitteHilgner: That's the term I'm familiar with.
1 hr
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: seems to be more common
1 hr
agree  Stephen Reader: With both of you of c'se
2 hrs
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: based on the definition of the German term
16 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
white accents / white highlights


Explanation:
in running text, accented in/with white or highlighted in white

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 9 mins (2012-02-01 11:54:08 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Or accentuated in white, but I wouldn't use these for a caption. I would just put 'white accents'.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 28 mins (2012-02-01 12:13:30 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Sunset in a Wood is an excellent example of how the exemplary Van Ruisdael depicted the interior of an untamed forest. Straight white accents indicate reflections in the pond in the middle foreground. This pond is also the nucleus of the picture and its only flat surface. On the right two stems of dead trees have fallen into the pond and rest in an oblique position. On the left only the trunk of another tree is still standing, with the mossy terrain behind it uneven and becoming hilly in the background. It is overgrown with wild brushwood from which giant trees rise high up, their unruly crowns silhouetted against the gloomy sky.
http://www.oldmasters.net/nsa-ruisdael-sunset.html

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 30 mins (2012-02-01 12:14:45 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

12 (anon). Old Mother Bunny. Akron, Ohio, USA: Saalfield Co.;
(1915); two thin card shaped cream coloured pages, with full colour on
outside "cover" pages and on inner spread, the other pages in blue
outline and type and white accents on the illustrations; approx.
10.6x5.5". On the both covers, a large and determined mother bunny,
with red shoes and a manic expression, attacks a carrot with her paring
knife; inside, on plain pages, are period drawings of clothed rabbits,
on the center spread are two copies from Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit
(with a kindly mother!) and a naturalistic rabbit family.
VG; spine is rubbed through colour and split 1" at the bottom, exterior
a bit toned, ow very bright, clean, unwrinkled and unmarked. $55
http://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/catalogues-lists/catalogue-...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 31 mins (2012-02-01 12:16:27 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Sous bois, 1862
Black chalk and white highlights on toned
paper
9 7/16 x 7 1/4 in. (24 x 18.4 cm)
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New
York (1971.77)
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/pdfs/TJM_Pissarro-...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 37 mins (2012-02-01 12:21:49 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

I tend to take Christies or Sothebys as my guide when I translate art catalogues and auction catalogues: http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2009/i...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 38 mins (2012-02-01 12:22:59 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2006/f...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 40 mins (2012-02-01 12:25:13 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Leonardo da Vinci and Studio, "Head of a Child in Three Quarter View", ca. 1472-82, 5 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (134 x 119 mm), metalpoint highlighted in white gouache; extensive studio-reworking with pen, brush, brown wash. Paris, Louvre.
http://www.klinegallery.com/Verrocchio01.html

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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2012-02-02 15:45:05 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Rachel - that's what I had in mind.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 275
Grading comment
I will go with this as it fits the space better. Thanks to you both, though!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ramey Rieger (X): yes, accents or accented white
8 mins
  -> Thanks, Ramey, though I personally wouldn't use 'accented white' without the with or in!
agree  Nicola Wood
28 mins
  -> Thanks, Nicola
agree  Lonnie Legg
46 mins
  -> Thanks, Lonnie
agree  David Williams
50 mins
  -> Thanks, David
agree  Stephen Reader: Absolutely.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Stephen
agree  philgoddard
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, phil
agree  British Diana
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, BD
agree  Wendy Streitparth: Sounds more natural
20 hrs
  -> Thanks, Wendy
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Reference comments


16 hrs
Reference: mit Weiß erhöhen

Reference information:
mit Weiß erhöhen
1. ♦ etw. höher machen ⇓
♦ etw. durch hellere Farben herausheben bildlich ⇓
Die Zeichnung ... ist mit Feder und Pinsel in Tusche angefertigt mit Weiß erhöht — Urania 1955

http://www.dwds.de/?qu=erhöhen

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 71
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