[Rarebooks] FS: GERMAN ARTIST

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

ERNST MATTHES 1878-1918.  ALS PRIVATDRUCK HERAUSGEGEBEN VON MAGDALENE BLOHM 
& PETER HIRSCHFELD.  (Hamburg, 1929).   #51 of 70 copies only.   Quarto, 
original decorated boards, excellent copy.   Fronts-portrait (platinum 
print  - small crease in tissue.)   31 plates (13 in color).  Presentation 
copy from Magdalene Blohm, with a 2-page autograph letter signed from her 
presenting the book and saying "It was meant to keep the memory of my 
brother alive . . . It was never published .  .  .  [&c]"  This gifted but 
ill-fated artist died in the World War in 1918.  He spent the years 1901-11 
in Paris. Insel Verlag published his "Scenes Parisiannes."   Not in 
OCLC.   RLIN  locates one copy at the Getty Museum.  There was an exhibit 
of his work and a catalog at the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1972 and at Harvard 
in 1973.   $225.00


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