In the “fine-art publishing house Christoph Falk” is ready placed a comprehensive offer by erasures. These come from different artists and particularly motives for city like the Brandenburger gate in Berlin and Frauenkirche in Dresden rank among the repertoire “fine-art publishing house of the Christoph Falk”.

The term erasure comes from latin „radere “, which scratch, to take away and removes meant. For the production of a hand-made erasure in the “fine-art publishing house Christoph Falk” first a pressure plate is needed, into which the motive is in-scratched.

This can happen in different way. During the so-called cold needle erasure the motive is scratched mirror-wrongly with an etching needle directly into the pressure plate. During the corroding erasure the pressure plate is covered before with a acid-resistant protective layer. Whereupon the motive is cut mirror-wrongly into this layer with clearly less energy expenditure, compared with the cold needle erasure. In a Säurebad the acid etches the metal away in the places free-scratched before. These recesses in the metal can be adjusted by the length of the Säurebads. Subsequently, still the acid-resistant lacquer must be removed.

Dependant on the material of the pressure plates erasures can be differentiated in steel passes and copperplate engravings. The harder steel can be scratched more with difficulty, however a clearly higher hardness than copper knows. Due to the smaller wear can be manufactured therefore of pressure plates consisting of steel clearly more erasures than by means of copper pressure plates. Therefore the pressure plates are usually verstählt.

Erasures are manufactured by means of the low pressure. The gravure technique is a printing technique, with which the elements, contrary to high pressure, which can be printed, are absorbed. The low pressure process of an erasure runs off in the “fine-art publishing house Christoph Falk” following: First the pressure plate with color is rolled in. The recesses of the pressure plate fill. Subsequently, the pressure plate is cleaned by hand, so that only color is in the recesses. By means of a roller the color of the recesses will transfer to moistened Büttenpapier. Subsequently, the erasure is dried and partly koloriert by our coworkers “fine-art publishing house of the Christoph Falk”.

We hope to be able to give a small idea of the world of the erasures and the low pressure to them. With further interest you browse nevertheless in our on-line mail-order operation or go past you to the “fine-art publishing house Christoph Falk” and can the low pressure locally be explained.