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Alt Jabel*





In his book Alt Jabel*, Paul Tuttas returns to the place of his childhood, a small village in northern Germany in the former GDR. The author grew up there in a parish right on the edge of a pine forest. The book captures the feeling of returning to such a familiar place where not much has changed. In the illustrations and short stories we can encounter places like the dunes in the middle of the pine forest, the children's room of the author or the apple tree in front of the family house.

The illustrations are the result of a graphic experiment, a combination of woodcut and montotype printing. The book was published in an edition limited to 80 copies, of which the first half was published in German and the second in Czech.
  • year: 2024
  • publisher: none
  • language: German or Czech 
  • design: Paul Tuttas
  • illustration and text: Paul Tuttas
  • edition: 80 (40 Czech and 40 German copies)
  • size: 16,5 × 23,5 cm
  • pages: 76
  • technique: inside: digital indigo print; dust jacket: original monotype and letterpress
  • binding: thread sewn binding, softcover with dust jacket



Winner of the Special Award for Excellence in Illustration, awarded by the Association of Czech Graphic Artists HOLLAR, Prague 2025




Winner of the Grafika Roku Award (Graphic of the Year) in the category Artist’s book, awarded by the Grafika Roku Foundation, Prague 2025






    landscape : escapeland





    The book landscape : escapeland contains a visual exchange between Isidora Stojanović and Paul Tuttas. The idea for the dialogue originated in a joint exhibition of the two artists at the KunstvereinGRAZ in Regensburg.

    an excerpt from the preface by Barbara Muhr:
    The artists sent three works together with a word and vice versa. The chapters also list associated terms to the realized works that came up when shown to others. An inversion of what was first. In the beginning, there was the word … was it?

    Stojanović and Tuttas build up landscapes with layers of letters and printed structures. She works with a typewriter, he prints with fabrics and stencils. Their connection is colour, medium, format. Horizons and mountains, above and below, rise and fall  —  subtle lines, harsh ones, meltings and cracks.

    Two œuvres, two views interwoven in one binder. The closest they could be.
                    


    • year: 2024
    • publisher: none
    • language: English 
    • design: Paul Tuttas
    • illustration and text: Isidora Stojanović and Paul Tuttas
    • preface: Barbara Muhr
    • edition: 100 numbered copies
    • size: 18 × 13,5 cm
    • pages: 44
    • technique: riso print by paper can dance, Prague
    • binding: 5-hole pamphlet stitch



    3rd Prize at Nejkrásnější České Knihy Roku 2024 (Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year 2024) in the category Bibliophilic and Artist’s Books, awarded by the Museum of Literature and the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Prague 2025






      Grenzen / Hranice





      Grenzen / Hranice (Borders) is a dialogue between the two artists Paul Tuttas and Johannes Steubl. They sent their graphics and texts on the subject of borders back and forth to each other, from Prague to Regensburg and back. Paul Tuttas chose printmaking as his technique for the dialogue — woodcut, linocut, material print and more. Johannes Steubl in turn drew his pictures.

      Format and colour remain the same but the motifs and words change. Sometimes they refer abstractly and other times quite concretely to borders — but they always return to the stories and landscapes of the Bavarian-Czech border region. 
      • year: 2023
      • publisher: none (author’s book) 
      • language: German, Czech 
      • design: Paul Tuttas
      • illustration and text: Paul Tuttas, Johannes Steubl
      • edition: 60
      • size: 35 × 22 cm
      • pages: 68
      • print: digital and letterpress
      • binding: glued softcover



      From the introduction chapter of Grenzen / Hranice:

      Separated by borders,
      connected by words and images
      we search for a line,
      digging through stories,
      exploring landscapes.

      • The dialogue begins.
      • There and back, there and back, there and...





        • Struktur





        Limewood, a cabbage leaf, packaging film and sandpaper — all these materials have very different qualities. But what happens when you try to create a print with them? It is precisely this question that was the starting point for Struktur.

        The artist’s book discovers the influence of a material's structure on the printing process and the resulting graphics. The five chapters deal with other aspects too: What happens when you print the same material on different papers? What patterns are created when different materials are printed on top of each other? How high does the pressure have to be before a material breaks?


        Year: 2023
        Publisher: none (artist’s book)
        Language: German, Czech translation in the back
        Design, text and print: Paul Tuttas 
        Edition: 20
        Size: 14 × 22 cm
        Pages: 126
        Print: material and letterpress
        Binding: Japanese glued binding, soft cover



        Winner of the Simeona Hošková Prize at Grafika Roku (Main Student Prize) together with the installation Blick aufs Meer, Prague 2024




        The entire book was letterpress printed on different papers in an edition of 20 numbered prints. The text is written in German with a translation into Czech at the end of the book and an index listing all the materials used.