Friedrich Karl Gotsch (Junge Kunst Band 45) by Will Grohmann - 1924

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1924 (German language), Band 45 (first edition), pictorial stiff card boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 21 x 15 cm, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 12 pages text with illustrations (including drawing of Charlie Chaplin). Very Good Condition, shows well, pages clean, binding firm, light wear to backstrip top and bottom, and extremities, fading/toning to cover edges. 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. Friedrich Karl Gotsch (actually Friedrich Karl Mueller) was a German painter and graphic artist; born February 3, 1900 in Pries in Eckernförde circle , and died September 21, 1984 in Schleswig. A classic title from early 20th century Germany; art history in your hand.