Heading: (Berlin Free Secession)
Author:
Title: Siebzehn Steinzeichnungen
Place Published: Berlin
Publisher:Verlag Freie Secession
Date Published: [1921]
Description:

2 text leaves with 15 (of 17) lithographs. (Folio) 44.6x34.7 cm (17½x13¾"), in original cloth-backed and -cornered portfolio with cover label by E.R Weiss. No. 55 of an edition limited to 100 copies.

Each lithograph signed by the artist including those by Franz Domscheit, August Gaul, Erich Heckel, Heinrich Heuser, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Hans Meid, Alfred Partikel, Max Pechstein, Hans Purrmann, Wolf Rohricht, Schmidt-Rottluf, Max Slevogt, Milly Steger, and E.R. Weiss. Prints missing are those by Karl Hofer and Georg Kolbe. The Berlin Free Secession was an influential spin-off group from the earlier Berlin Secession. Both were modernist movements at odds with the official and government-sanctioned art of the time. Harnessing several different styles including Expressionism, The Free Secession brought together leading Berlin artists such as ;Kathe Kollwitz, Max Pechstein, Max Liebermann, and ;Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

To view images of all 15 lithographs click here.

Light rubbing to portfolio and a bit of foxing; light foxing to some sheets, more pronounced on the lithographs of Franz Domscheit and Milly Steger; some mounting tape residue on reverse of Ka?the Kollwitz litho, some creasing at edges, some creasing to title leaf; overall very good or better.