VEZEN ZA DRÁTY K.L. MAUTHAUSEN [SIGNED BY AUTHOR] by Habrina, Raimund. Illustrations by Bohumil Lonek, Design by Zdenek Rossmann - 1945

Praha : J. Zita, 1945. Hardback. 1st Edition Original Boards, with Rare Dust Jacket illustrated by Bohumil Lonek. 8vo. 106 pages ; 28 cm. Signed on title page by author. In Czech. Title translates into English as, "Prisoner Behind Barbed Wire. Concentration Camp Mauthausen. " An exceedingly early and rare and significant artistic collaboration of 3 Artists who survived Mauthausen. Habrina's poems, set to illustrations by Bohumil Lonek, with additional graphic design by the noted modernist designer Zdenek Rossmann. All three were survivors of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Bohumil was arrested in 1944 and imprisoned in Mauthausen There he created more than a hundred paintings and small watercolors, which are among the most valuable artistic documents of life in a concentration camp in the Czech art. His line drawings and watercolors were exhibited in April 1946 in the Vilímek JR Gallery. His work was also exhibited in 1966 in Pardubice as well as in the Old Town Hall in Prague (Jewish Museum of Czechoslovakia, 2016) . Zdenek Rossmann is hailed as one of the great constructivist graphic designers. "Památce desetitisícu ubitých v koncentracním tábore Mauthausenu." SUBJECT(S): Concentration camp inmates' writings. Koncentracní tábory -- 1939-1945. Svetová válka 2., 1939-1945. -- Poetry. OCLC lists just 4 copies worldwide. (National Czech Library, British Libr, Universitat Konstanz, US Holocaust Museum), only 1 in the United States or Israel. Both book and jacket are in very good+ condition. A Stunning Copy. (HOLO2-130-55U) xx.