Paula Modersohn (Junge Kunst Band 2)

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Berlin and Leipzig, 1927 (German language), Band 2 (second edition), stiff card boards decorated with titling and device in green, cloth backstrip, octavo, 21 x 15 cm, colour plate frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 14 pages text. In Very Good Condition - backstrip intact, clean pages, light soil to covers (typical). 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. Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 30 November 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. Her brief career was cut short when she died from postpartum embolism at the age of 31. She is becoming recognized as the first female painter to paint nude self-portraits. She was an important member of the artistic movement of modernism at the start of the twentieth century. (Courtesy Wikipedia). A classic title from early 20th century Germany; art history in your hand.