The Fisher Bastion

Kalman Kubinyi

The Print-A-Month Club (founded by Kubinyi) publication number 9 documentation notes: "This month's release, titled the 'Fisher's Bastion,' is a 'stylotint' - so dubbed by the artist - a technique that combines most of the best features of both etching and aquatint, but which is at the same time more flexible than either...."

Kubinyi directed the WPA/FAP printmaking section in Cleveland, Ohio, which produced more than 6,000 original prints offered to public institutions. He experimented with a variety of innovative graphic processes, including the "stylotint". He founded the Print-a-Month Club in 1930, as the Great Depression was starting, as a way for printmakers to make a little extra money, the WPA/FAP began in 1935 and gave printmakers a guaranteed income in exchange for their creating works to be used in public institutions.

The 'Fisher Bastion,' or The Fisherman's Bastion located in Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the Buda Castle, in the 1st district of Budapest and was built between 1895 and 1902 as part of the series of developments that were to celebrate the 1000th birthday of the Hungarian state.