Hardcover
1916 · Breslau
by Masner, Karl; Hintze, Erwin
Breslau: Selbstverlag der Stadt Breslau, 1916. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 76pp., 100 plates with tissue guards. 76 pp. text section bound separately at front describing each plate in its own paragraph and with images, as well. Blue cloth portfolio with bound descriptive text laid in. Centenary edition commemorating 100th anniversary of the 1813-1815 War. More than 100 individual portraits of historical figures in photogravure (9 1/2 x 6 1/2") based on artwork by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Bertel Thorwaldson, Georg Kolbe, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Georg Emanuel Opitz and others. 50 reproductions in the accompanying text book featuring the interior of the exhibition's galleries and artwork of various historical figures of the time. The exhibition hall was built by the architect Hans Poelzig for the inaugural exhibition. Photographs by Götz. Ex-libris with bookplate at front. Original blue cloth folio split, with flaps laid in. Cover frayed and worn along edges. Cover split. Binding in fair, interior in very good condition.
(Inventory #: 10021)