Expressionism & Bauhaus

ARNO HOLZ und sein Werk. Deutsche Stimmen zu einem 60. Geburtstage herausgegeben von Ferdinand Avenarius, Max Liebermann und Max von Schillings.

Berlin. Werk-Verlag. 1923. Folio. pp. 57. With lithograph frontispiece by Walter Klemm and six original signed prints by a variety of Expressionist artists. Publisher's quarter parchment, printed boards.

Edition limited to 125 deluxe copies with the signed prints, each printed on chine.
The ... (more)

£1,500

ref: 26248

GENIUS. Heise, Carl Georg (ed.).

Genius. Eine Zeitschrift fur werdende und alte Kunst.

Munich. Kurt Wolff. 1919 - 1921 (all published). 3 vols. Folio. With 16 original graphics and some 350 illustrations. Publisher's vellum-backed coloured boards.

A complete set of this exhaustive survey of the art and literature of German Expressionism. During ... (more)

£1,250

ref: 33664

GROSZ, George und Wieland Herzfelde.

Die Kunst ist in Gefahr. Drei Aufsatze.

Berlin. Malik Verlag. 1925. Small 8vo. pp. 45, (3). With two illustrations by Grosz in the text. Original boards with design by Grosz on front cover, spine lacking with repair tape at base.

First edition.

£40

ref: 24467

ITTEN.

Frau Agathe und allen meinen Schülern gewidmet. Erster Daidalos-Druck.

Vienna. Richard Lanyi. 1919. Folio. Title plate with colophon on verso, list of plates, and 10 original lithographs by Johannes Itten. Total of twelve loose sheets as issued.

Edition limited to 225 copies.
Complete set of one of the earliest of Itten's printed works. The work's title is honouring one of his important pupils at school, Agathe Mark-Kornfeld.
[Ref. - Anneliese Itten 157-168. Mentha 299-310].

£7,500

ref: 30576

JAHRESMAPPE. Der Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst in Wien.

Vienna. Aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei in Wien. 1898 - 1921. Large folio (46 x 58 cm). A collection of 117 original prints (lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, linocuts &c.), many of which are coloured, issued in various sizes and on various paper stock. Original publisher's printed card portfolios, boxed.

A fine set of the Austrian 'Jahresmappe' which continued publication until 1931. The publication was ... (more)

£9,500

ref: 22873

KANDINSKY and MARC.

Der Blaue Reiter.

Munchen. Piper. 1912. 4to. pp.140. With 141 illustrations and plates, 8 vignettes and 3 music sheets. Original cloth-covered boards designed by Kandinsky. Some staining to boards.

First edition of the manifesto of Der Blaue Reiter and one of the monuments of modern art. Text by ... (more)

£4,500

ref: 34505

KIRCHNER. Grohmann, Will.

Das Werk Ernst Ludwig Kirchners.

Munich. Kurt Wolff. 1926. Square 4to. pp. 60. 100 plates including 4 in colour, illustrations in the text and 6 original woodcuts made by Kirchner for this publication. Re-bound in half vellum.

Fine copy of the first major study of Kirchner's work for which the artist made 6 original woodcuts including the 2-colour title page. (Dube 852-3, 855-858). Edition limited to 850 copies.

£1,650

ref: 30127

KIRCHNER. Heym, Georg.

Umbra Vitae. Nachgelassene Gedichte.

Munich. Kurt Wolff. 1924. 8vo. pp. 64. 47 original woodcuts including the red and black frontispiece. Original publisher's printed cloth with colour woodcut by Kirchner, printed endpapers with designs by Kirchner.

From the edition limited to 510 copies, with this one of 500.

£8,000

ref: 28334

KOKOSCHKA.

Oskar Kokoschka. Zwanzig Zeichnungen.

Berlin. Der Sturm. 1913. Folio. Title leaf & list of plates. With 20 plates reproducing early ... (more)

£1,250

ref: 33353

KUNSTBLATT. Westheim, Paul.

Das Kunstblatt. Hrsg. von P. Westheim.

Weimar. 1917-1932 (lacking the final three issues from 1933). 16 years bound in 17 volumes. 4to ... (more)

An extensive run of this rare Expressionist periodical, with January 1917 to January being the ... (more)

£14,000

ref: 22878

LE CORBUSIER.

La Ville Radieuse. Éléments d'une Doctrine d'Urbanisme pour l'Équipment de la Civilisation Machiniste.

Boulogne. Éditions de l'Architecture d'Aujoud'hui. 1933. Oblong 4to. pp. 344. Profusely illustrated in monochrome and colour, with photographs, architectural designs and cartoons. Soft boards, rebacked

£525

ref: 17420

MARCKS.

Das Wielandslied der aelteren Edda.

Munchen-Weimar. Bauhaus-Verlag. 1923. 4to. pp. (4). With 10 original woodcuts by Gerhard Marcks, each initialled and dated in pencil. Loose as issued in publisher's vellum-backed boards.

From the edition limited to 110 numbered copies.
It wasn't until after World War I that Marcks ... (more)

£7,500

ref: 19681

MOHOLY-NAGY.

Telehor. The International review, the New Vision. 1-2 (all published).

Brno, Czechoslavakia. Kalivoda. 1936. 4to. pp. 138. With 67 photographs, photograms, and film-clips by Moholy-Nagy, of which 9 are in colour. Original publisher's colour printed wrappers with typographic design, spiral bound.

The only number of this Czech periodical, and one of the most important and rare of Moholy-Nagy ... (more)

£1,800

ref: 30087

Munchner Blatter fur Dichtung und Graphik. [All published].

Munchen. Georg Muller. 1919. 12 issues in 11. 4to. pp. 192. Illustrated with 56 (mostly full page ... (more)

A complete set of this scarce literary and artistic periodical. As well as numerous original ... (more)

£2,800

ref: 22786

STURM, Der. Wochenschrift fur Kultur und die Kunste. [Later} Halbmonatsschrift fur Kultur und die Kunste. Erster Jahrgang, Nummer 1, Marz 1910 - Funfter Jahrgang, Nummer 23/24, Marz 1915.

Berlin. Verlag der Sturm. 1910 - 1915. 4 vols. Folio. 3 leaves per issue + 1 leaf advertisements. Illustrated throughout in monochrome with caricatures and original prints by many contemporary artists. Many of the prints are full-page and some are double-page. Black cloth-backed boards.

A very good set of the avant-garde literary and artistic periodical founded by Herwarth Walden ... (more)

£25,000

ref: 22872

STURM-BUHNE. Jahrbuch des Theaters der Expressionisten. Erste - Achte Folge. [All published].

Berlin. Verlag Der Sturm. January 1918-October 1919. Folio. 8 issues, each 4 pp. Presented in modern black cloth drop-back box.

Edited by Herwarth Walden & Lothar Schreyer. A complete set of this extremely rare and very ... (more)

£2,500

ref: 25280

TAUT, Bruno.

Alpine Architektur in 5 Teilen und 30 Zeichnungen.

Hagen. Erschienen im Folkwang. 1919. Folio. Vignette title, list of plates and twenty-two tipped-in monochrome plates and eight colour plates, all after drawings by Taut. The work is divided into 5 sections, each of which has a title. Original publisher's printed wrappers with argent design after a drawing by Taut.

Taut illustrates in 30 delicately drawn plates his proposal to transform an entire Alpine range from ... (more)

£6,500

ref: 32818

ZIJEME. Obrazkovy magazin dnesni doby. (Years 1 & 2).

Prague Prometheus. 1931-32. 8vo. (First Year: Issues 1-12; Second Year: Issues 1-10). Bound in two volumes. pp. 380, 315. Publisher's annual binding of orange and black cloth, with the original front wrappers by Sutnar bound in at the rear of each volume.

The Czech magazine 'Zijeme' was a modern, internationally directed monthly whose goal it was to ... (more)

£3,200

ref: 28790