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KANDINSKY, Wassily (1866-1944) and Franz MARC (1880-1916). Der Blaue Reiter. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912. 4° (298 x 221mm). Three coloured reproductions, one of these the frontispiece, and illustrated throughout with halftone reproductions, and with vocal scores by Schönberg, Berg and Von Webern. (One advert with the image excised.) Contemporary blue morocco, the spine and upper side lettered in gilt, original printed wrappers bound-in, top edge black (papers wrappers lightly soiled; morocco spine evenly faded to light green).
FIRST EDITION. A CORNERSTONE OF THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE, and one of the most important and innovative publication in the history of German Expressionism. Kandinsky and Marc had been planning the publication of this book since their break-away from the Munich Neue Künstlervereinigung in June 1911. Theoretical treatises on artistic form (Über die Formfrage by Kandinsky) and articles on musical anarchy are juxtaposed with illustrations of Benin sculpture and children's drawings. In a pivotal, anarchic article entitled Die 'Wilden' Deutschlands Marc discusses the new forces in German art: Die Brücke, Neue Sezession, and Neue Vereinigung. One of 1200 copies.
FIRST EDITION. A CORNERSTONE OF THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE, and one of the most important and innovative publication in the history of German Expressionism. Kandinsky and Marc had been planning the publication of this book since their break-away from the Munich Neue Künstlervereinigung in June 1911. Theoretical treatises on artistic form (Über die Formfrage by Kandinsky) and articles on musical anarchy are juxtaposed with illustrations of Benin sculpture and children's drawings. In a pivotal, anarchic article entitled Die 'Wilden' Deutschlands Marc discusses the new forces in German art: Die Brücke, Neue Sezession, and Neue Vereinigung. One of 1200 copies.
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