Das Graphische Jahrbuch
(no location): Darmstadt Karl Lang Verlag, (not identified). Hardcover. Tan paper boards with brown lettering on front cover and spine, bw frontispiece, 55 pp followed by XXXII pages of bw plates. Good (overall staining to boards, spine chipped, worn and loose, tanning to pages). Item #175629
Written in German. "The Graphic Yearbook". Reproductions of works by Ludwig Meidner, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Otto Gleichmann, Paul Seehaus, W. Ruttmann, Heinrich Nauen, Felixmüller, Emil Maetzel, F. Schaeffer, Walter Gramatté, Otto Müller, Max Kraus, Max Burchartz and Eberhard Vigener. Essays by Däubler, Meier-Graefe, Schapire, Schiefler, E.Trautner and the editors of Beckmann, Feininger, Gleichmann, Klee, Kokoschka, Schmidt-Rottluff, and others. "The first and only volume of Das graphische Jahrbuch (The print yearbook), published by Karl Lang Verlag, presented an idiosyncratic selection of postwar German printmakers chosen by its editor, Hans Theodor Joel, who believed in the revolutionary potential of art to transform society. Rather than offering a comprehensive overview—and although it included short essays on major Expressionists ranging from Max Beckmann, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, and Oskar Kokoschka—Das graphische Jahrbuch primarily highlighted younger artists who were not well known, including now mostly forgotten figures such as Otto Gleichmann, Walter Gramatté, and Richard Seewald. Contributors included critics and art historians such as Julius Meier-Graefe, Rosa Schapire, Gustav Schiefler, and Paul Westheim. The book featured three original prints: one woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and another by Gottfried Graf and a lithograph by Walter Ruttmann. The rest of the images were reproduction."-website.
OCLC: 431310851
Price: $325.00