Collection of 14 World War I Print Portfolios by German Artists. Including works by René Beeh, Emma Frenberg, Karl Bober, Bruno Kraustopf, Ursla Stolte, Paul Hartmann, Elsa Weigandt, Erich Dietrich, Hilde Schindler, Georg Mathen, Editha Quaas, Joshua Bampp, Paul Winkler, Josef Eberz, Fritz Gärtner, Erich Gruner, Willi Geiger, Carl Christoph Hartig, Luigi Kasimir, Hermann Struck, Richard Müller and Heinrich Vogeler. Munich, Berlin, etc., 1914-1917. (47377)
The First World War may have been the last global conflict to be so comprehensively illustrated and interpreted by graphic artists. Only a few decades later, Capra and the photographers who followed his example would claim battlefield documentation largely for the camera. With the centennial of the war’s commencement looming next year, F.A. Bernett Books has acquired a collection of print portfolios that demonstrate how German visual artists represented and responded to the Great War.
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by Arthur on Thursday, March 22, 2012
in 19th-Century,20th-Century,Art,Berlin,Germany,Graphic Design,Graphic Design,Illustration,Jugendstil,Poetry,Print making
Pan. Years I-V (all published). Edited by Julius Meier-Graefe and Otto Julius Bierbaum. A complete run of all five years, bound in 21 parts as issued (altogether 347, 351, 266, 267, 279 pp.) Sm. folio. Orig. wrpps., a few chips and tears at edges, some covers professionally repaired. Berlin (Genossenschaft Pan) 1895-1899. (45601)
Pan. Cover detail. Jahrgang 1, no. 1. April/May 1895.
In the late 19th Century, a new moon was rising over the old continent. Some caught sight of its glinting rays more quickly than others. In Berlin, the fiercely intellectual, young art critic Julius Meier-Graefe drew on his connections in Paris, Stockholm, Vienna and London to illuminate the pages of an ambitious new arts journal with works by the era’s brightest stars in painting and the graphic arts, among them Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, Seurat, Vallotton and Zorn.
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Tagged as:
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Jugendstil,
Julis Meier-Graefe,
Otto Julius Bierbaum,
Pan,
Signac,
Toulouse-Lautrec,
Zorn
Sem (pseudonym for Georges Goursat). Sem au Bois (title stamped in gilt on front cover). N.p. (Paris?) ca. 1908. Signed and dated 29/4/08 in pencil on the last plate; 6 other plates with the artist’s printed insignia. [45958]
Caricature from “Sem au Bois,” identified by Prof. Pau Medrano Bigas as Jagatjit Singh Bahadur (1872-1949), Maharadjah of Kapurthala State under British Colonial rule.
“And if you happen to be an historian of Belle Epoque Paris (clever you) and recognize anyone among the caricatures, please let us know in the comments field…”
– UPDATE, May 2011:
When first I wrote about Georges “Sem” Goursat’s 1910 leporello Sem au Bois about a year ago, I ended the post with an invitation, asking readers to share any insights they might have as to the real-world identities of the faces caricatured in Sem’s well-heeled crowd of Boulogne woods revelers.
Last week, Pablo Medrano Bigas, Associate Professor of Design and Image at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Universitat de Barcelona answered the call. Clever him, indeed, and lucky us. Not only has he positively identified several of the processional’s key figures, he’s also supplied a wealth of historical background information to further our understanding the illustration’s form and content.
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Tagged as:
Bernard ‘Moloch’ Collomb,
Bois de Boulogne,
Claire Geneviève ‘Ginette’ Lantelme,
Colette,
Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac,
George Goursat,
Henri Letellier,
Hotel Scribe,
Jagatjit Singh Bahadur,
Jockey Club de Paris,
Louis Philippe,
Madeleine Carlier,
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole,
Marius ‘O’Galop’ Rossillon,
Marthe Fourton,
Michel ‘Mich’ Liebeaux,
Miss Kodak,
Paris,
Polaire,
Sem
