Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini (Junge Kunst Band 43

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1924 (German language), Band 43 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 7 pages text. Very Good copy, gap between text and illustration gatherings (backstrip visible), faint curling of boards at corner. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini (10 January 1881 – 5 August 1958) was a Swiss painter, illustrator and printmaker. Along with Heinrich Altherr, Paul Bodmer and Walter Clénin, he was one of the most prolific Swiss muralists of the first half of the twentieth century. A classic title from early 20th century Germany; art history in your hand.