German Printmaker (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 26 pages, 84 black & white plates. Original printed boards. Spine a little rubbed. Published without a dustwrapper. Size: 12 x 18 cms. Category: King Penguin Books; New Arrivals; Hardback Books; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated French flap card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 12'' x 9¼''. Contains 200 pp with monochrome and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [German].

Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page. Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Aus Versehen war Ihre Karte in St. Anna ter Muiden liegen geblieben und erhalte ich dieselbe eben jetzt erst. Hiermit die gewünschte Unterschrift []". - Starting out as an impressionist painter, Baum turned towards Pointillism from 1900, creating landscape paintings inspired by Flemish and Dutch scenery, and is considered one of the few prominent German artists of this style. - Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

Large 4to. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. Comprehensive letter in German, to the artist Irmgard Hasenbach-Tavolato (née Seeling, 1899-1978) in Merano, about his financial worries: "Now, after my return to Berlin, I have learned of many things which also concern myself and which make it necessary for me to decide how I shall plan my further life so as to take care of myself and my family, for this I can no longer do by working as a painter [.] Is it possible that I exhibit in Italy, and may I sell my works, should someone wish to buy them? My savings would last for a little while, as I would be staying at a cheap fishing village. Here, my very existence consumes everything! and I can see when I will have reached the end [.]".

Large 4to. 3¼ pp. on bifolium. Stamped letterhead, ruled paper. Fine letter to Hugo Ball (1886-1927), who was working then as a dramaturg at the Munich Kammerspiele. Marc refuses to realize a theatre project under their current circumstances: "I would rather wait until we can really create something new, with our own ensemble and with perfect freedom of movement. Otherwise, nothing solid comes to pass. Then we would have to engage Kokoschka, Kandinsky, Klee, and Macke, and as musicians we must get the Schoenberg circle (Schoenberg, Webern, Berg and others) [.]". - Furthermore, Marc mentions the Russian painter Vladimir Georgievitsch Bechteev (1878-1971), a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München ("Munich New Artist's Association"), who was friendly with the "Blaue Reiter" ("Blue Rider"). Bechteev was involved in the theatre project discussed by Hugo Ball, which fell apart, as did other plans with members of the "Blue Rider". In 1914, he went back to Russia, and was called up to the army. After WWII, he worked as a set designer and illustrator. - Franz Marc. Briefe, Schriften, Aufzeichnungen (Leipzig 1989), p. 95.

Large 4to. Altogether 3 pp. on 2 ff. In German. Comprehensive letters to the German artist Irmgard Hasenbach-Tavolato (née Seeling, 1899-1978), on the loss of his work (1948) and an exhibition (1952): "At least life is saved, although everything else is lost. What hurts me most, is the loss of my work, whole periods from 1905 onwards were smashed, a vast number of drawings irretrievably lost [.]" (Berlin, 31 March 1948; transl.). - "Luckily all this fuss is now behind me. It proved very difficult to assemble all the necessary pictures for the exhibition, for most of my work has been lost. During the three weeks of the exhibition there were more than 6000 visitors, but nothing sold, not a single sheet - the people need their money for the bare necessities of life [.]" (15 March 1952; transl.). - Some tears to edges.

8vo. Altogether 6 pp. on 5 ff. With one enclosure (s. b.) and an autogr. envelope. To art historian Franz Stadler in Munich, on preparing an art exhibition ("Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon") (Berlin, 15. IX. 1912), sending congratulations on Stadler's betrothal (Sindelsdorf, 1. VI. 1913, a postcard from the press of "Der Sturm", showing Franz Marc's "Affenfries"), on plans for travelling to Berlin (Gendrin, undated), and, finally on Stadler's wedding (n. p., 23. VII. 1913). - Accompanied by an autogr. register in which Marc has put down the address of some galleries and artists in Paris such as Robert Delaunay, Wilhelm Uhde ("has got fine paintings of Rousseau, and cubists", transl. from the German original), and Le Fauconnier.

Large 4to and 8vo. Correspondence with art publishers Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna, about the sale of several drawings and balancing accounts, preparing artwork for publication, the progress of his work, and about sending new prints.