Usage Note
Druckplatte is a flat plate — typically of copper, zinc, or aluminium — used in intaglio or planographic printing processes. After use, a Druckplatte may be cancelled by scoring to prevent further unauthorised prints. Feminine noun.
Examples
"Die Druckplatte wurde nach der limitierten Auflage von hundert Exemplaren vernichtet."
Natural Translation
The printing plate was destroyed after the limited edition of one hundred copies.
Literal Translation
The printing-plate was after the limited edition of hundred copies destroyed.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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