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German to English Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Translation Glossary

German term English translation
umsetzen implement/realize
Umspann tacking edges / tacking margins
umwittert shrouded in
unausgesprochen implicit / unexpressed / unspoken
Entered by: Steffen Walter
unter dem Motto on the theme of
unter falscher Flagge fahren to sail under false flags
Unterzeichnung accent/hint
Unvernehmen disagreement
vereinen unite/combine/ associate/bring together/merge/blend
Verfallskunst decadent art/ art of decay
Verhängungsplan hanging plan
vermitteln/Vermittlung present / presentation
Verschränkstäbchen modelling sticks
versetzen to transpose/transport/propel
verströmende effluent (here)
Verzeitlichung temporalisation / temporalization
Verziehen slight warping
Videorauminstallation (no set phrase)
visuelle Prägung visual imprint
vom Schatten her aufbauen let the bodies emerge from their shadow
Vorbesichtigung preview
Vorbrand prefiring
vorkragenden overhanging
Vorlagenverkehr flow/exchange/traffic of patterns/models
Weberei weaving
Wechselspiele (creating surprising) juxtapositions
wehrhaft defiant
Weiblicher Rückenakt female back nude (study)
Weibliches Feigenblatt Female Fig Leaf
weiland once, long ago, formerly, erstwhile
weiss erhöht white accents / white highlights
Werkformulierung artistic expression
Werkvertiefung Other art publications (literally=close(r) analysis of an artist's work or oeuvre)
Werkverwalter custodian
Wickel-, Tupf- und Wischtechnik Ragging, sponging and colourwashing techniques
Widerlager (fig.) rewrite around 're-link', reintegrate, counterweight/rebound, etc., (Helen Shiner) evokes its opposite [context-driven]
Windlicht hurricane lamp
Windsbraut Bride of the wind
Wir suchen Werke von Picasso für unsere nächsten Auktionen. Einlieferungen jetzt We are looking for Picasso works for our next auctions. Receiving now.
wirkungsträchtig ripe with possibility
Entered by: Sonja Marks-Terrey
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