Revolutionäre Zeitgenossen: Vierzig Karikaturen von Otto von Kursell. Erste und zweite Folge

München: Verlag der Muenchener Graphischen Kunst- und Verlagsanstalt Otto Schmidt-Bertschl, 1919. softcover. fair to vg. Folio. 4, 4pp., 40 plates (12 1/2 x 9 3/4"). Original illustrated ochre portfolio with ruling and lettering of covers in black. Title pages with black borders. Foreword by G. I. Wolf accentuating the value of masterful caricatures as cultural documents.Noted as master student of Franz von Stuck he became well known as a portrait painter. After W.W.I he collaborated with anti-Semitic and anti-Communist groups, went on diatribes and, via Alfred Rosenberg, was introduced to Dietrich Eckart, who published his work and convinced Kursell to work at the magazine "Auf gut Deutsch." In 1924 Kursell's portraits of the defendant's in the Hitler-Trial were published, he had become a member of the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in the attempted Hitler-Coup. Kursell worked in the propaganda machinery of the Nazis until the end of W.W.II.The portraits are reproduced lithographically depicting contemporary politicians from Berlin, Bavaria as well as well as Austrian politicians including Friedrich Ebert, Otto Landsberg, Karl Liebknecht, Kurt Eisner, Prime Minister of Hungary Count Karoly, and Dr. Victor Adler in the first series, Russian political leaders like Lenin and Karl Radek, Prussian and Bavarian personalities including Rosa Luxemburg, Adolf Hoffmann, Friedrich Naumann, and Attorney General Johannes Timm in the second series. Text in German. Portfolios with wear, complete though with tape repair along folds of cover and flaps. Small chips and tears along edges. Plates lightly age toned. Portfolios in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition. (Inventory #: 43767)