Hoffacker Karl Editor (3 results)

Paperback. MISSING BOTH COVERS and end papers. Contents intact: vii, [1], 196 pp. with a few color plates and several bw plates and illustrations. Page edges speckled blue. Text in German. The 7th annual volume of this art periodical. Features works from the Paris salons, antiquities found along the Rhine, the decor in the Reichsgerichtsgebaude in Leipzig, book decorations, and much more. Very little Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/ found here, as it was in its infancy. The taste is much more florid, but there are a few hints of the coming style in the book decorations. NOTE: THIS IS THE CONTENTS ONLY WITH NO COVERS, but the edition is intact. Worthy of rebinding. Clean and tight but with some age toning to pages. Small pieces missing from lower outer corners of first two leaves (title page through page iv); no text missing.

Paperback. 10 issues, each bound separately. All issues have both covers, although some are detached. Paginated consecutively over the course of the year, but each issue contains about 30 pp. with bw and sometimes color illustrations. All text in German. A nearly-complete run covering the year from October 1900 to September 1901 of this popular artwork magazine. These issues all cover works of the Art Nouveau style, popular at that time. The June and July 1901 issues are missing. Included are contemporary advertisements, articles about the Darmstadt artists' colony, all sorts of decorative arts (ceramics, furniture, lighting, book decoration, metalwork, enamel, statues, glassware, etc.); what's happening in the salons of Paris, and more. The advertisements in the back of each issue are wonderful in themselves, with advertisers from all over Germany but also London and elsewhere. An excellent partial set for the researcher, lover of Art Nouveau, or for reference. Could be bound appropriately. All clean copies but for some toning. Some covers detached but present; some wear to spines in those cases. A bit of edge wear to some covers, but the Art Nouveau images are not affected. October 1900 to September 1901; missing June/July 1901.

Green decorative cloth/folio boards; gilt lettering to front and spine. Decorative end papers. viii, 244 pp. full of bw illustrations and with 2 color plates, tissue-guarded. Text in German. The fourteenth annual edition of Kunstgewerbeblatt (Artworks), full of all kinds of decorative arts in the Art Nouveau style. Most works are of the home decor type: furniture, ceramics, decorative metal, lighting fixtures, table wares, etc. Things like book bindings and illustrations, statuary, and a few textiles are included. Also features a section on the decorative arts section from the Dusseldorf exhibition of 1902 with many photos of works which debuted at the exhibition in Turin, also in 1902. In beautiful condition. VG clean and tight; light age toning to pages; gilt bright; only former owner's bookplate on ffep (Leo Baer).