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Der Todseher - Rare Book Illustrated by Alfred Kubin - 1910

1910

$1,653.64
£1,242.47
€1,400
CA$2,277.08
A$2,548.48
CHF 1,334.04
MX$30,959.37
NOK 16,938.87
SEK 15,984.72
DKK 10,655.39

About the Item

Der Todseher is an original modern rare book written by Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886) and illustrated by Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. Original Edition. Published by Barsdorf, Berlin. 30 numbered copies of deluxe issue. Format: in 8°. The book includes 284 pages with six full page drawings. Mint conditions. Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (Leitmeritz, 1877 – Zwickledt, 1959) in 1910. He was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. Like Oskar Kokoschka and Albert Paris Gütersloh, Kubin had both artistic and literary talent. He illustrated the works of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, among others. Kubin also illustrated the German fantasy magazine Der Orchideengarten. Ernst Adolf Willkomm (Herwigsdorf, 1810 - Zittau, 1886). Willkomm was a German writer. Willkomm has published time-critical novels, travel sketches and short stories. With the title of his novel Die Europamüden in 1838 he took up a key word that had been coined by Heine in 1828 and with which an important aspect of thinking in the Vormärz was recorded. In the years 1845/46 Willkomm undertook a trip to Italy, whose experiences he processed in 1847 in the travel sketches Italian Nights and in the novel The Last Supper Brothers in Rome . In 1849 he was a war correspondent in the Schleswig-Holstein War and became editor of the Lübecker Zeitung.
  • Creation Year:
    1910
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10.83 in (27.5 cm)Width: 8.67 in (22 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
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  • Movement & Style:
  • After:
    Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (1877 - 1959)
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  • Condition:
    Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1196521stDibs: LU65038113312

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