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 original ... (more)

£1,500

ref: 26248

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.

München. Piper Verlag. 1912. 4to. pp.140. With 141 illustrations and plates, 8 vignettes and 3 music sheets together with 2 original signed colour woodcuts: one by Kandinsky, the other by Marc. Publisher's full blue calf, with gilt vignette by Kandinsky to upper board, title gilt to spine.

From the de luxe edition limited to 50 copies containing 2 colour woodcuts: Bogenschutze (R 79 ... (more)

£72,000

ref: 35191

KLINGER.

Paraphase über den Fund eines Handschuhes. 10 Blatter componiert und radiert von Max Klinger. Op. VI.

Leipzig. Verlag von Gertrud Hartmann-Klinger. 1924. Folio. Title & 10 etchings by Max Klinger, each mounted within individual passepartouts. Loose as issued in original half cloth folder, with gilt titles on front board.

Klinger's most imaginative set of prints, exploring the fantasies that were to be expressed by the ... (more)

£6,000

ref: 35594

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

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

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

TELEHOR. The International review, the New Vision. Supplement (all published).

Brno, Czechoslavakia. Kalivoda. 1936. 4to. pp. 133. With 69 photographs, photograms, and film-clips by Moholy-Nagy, of which 9 are in colour. Spiral bound with "1. moholy-nagy" in white on black. Wrappers detached, with chipping and minor loss to edges.

This copy has a SIGNED INSCRIPTION by Moholy-Nagy on the title page, 'Herbert Matter / herrlichst ... (more)

£2,800

ref: 35121

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