Paul Gaugain (Junge Kunst Band 36)

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1923 (German language), Band 36 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 11 pages text. Near Fine copy, light buckling to label on cover, faint curling of boards. Also includes a rare Klinkhardt & Biermann order form! 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. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. A classic title from early 20th century Germany; art history in your hand.