Lot 445
Um Berlin – Georg Herrmann – with Lithographs by Rudolf Grossmann – Berlin, 1912
Um Berlin, Zehn Original Lithographien von Rudolf Grossmann. Text von Georg Herrmann. [To Berlin]. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1912. German.
Large portfolio with ten signed lithographs by artist Rudolf Grossmann, with booklet that includes a text by Georg Herrmann decorated with two illustrations by Grossmann. On the front cover is a lithograph by Grossmann.
Printed in an edition of 180 copies, out of which 30 are on Japanese paper and 150 are on Dutch paper.
Georg Herrmann (1871-1943) - Jewish writer born in Berlin, very popular in the early twentieth century. He was the first chairman of the German Writers Association (Schutzverbandes Deutscher Schriftsteller); escaped from the Nazis to the Netherlands, was captured and transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. On the title page is a dedication in pencil (in Herrmann's handwriting?), to Dr. Max Marcuse, an important Jewish sexologist (dated, 1919).
10 leaves of lithographs, 8 pp., 68X53 cm. Good condition. Wear to binding, light stains and worn corners.
