A book, catalogues and booklets related to Herwarth Walden (1879-1941), a Jewish-German artist, curator, founder of the periodical "The Storm" (Der Sturm), as well as a publishing house and art gallery.
The book "Expressionism, the turning point in art" published by Walden in 1918 (item no. 1), includes essays about the expressionist movement and the prominent artists of the movement with reproductions of important works. The book also includes two original woodcuts by the artists Arnold Topp and Jacoba von Heemskerck and two lino-cuts by the artist Rudolf Bauer. In addition offered here are catalogues of exhibitions and booklets about modern art published by Walden, as well as a catalogue of an exhibition of his wife Nell Walden's art collection, exhibited in Basel, Switzerland in 1943, two years after his death.
Walden, born as Georg Levine, was married for a decade to the Jewish-German poet Elsa Lasker Schuller, who gave him the name by which he was known. Being a communist, he fled Germany in the early 1930s fearing the Nazis, and went to the Soviet Union, where he was persecuted due to his relations with Avant-garde art. He died in the Soviet prison in 1941.
1. Expressionismus, die Kunstwende, herausgegeben von Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm, 1918. German. 143 pp, 31 cm. Re-bound. Original wrapper is integrated into the binding. Several restored pages. Damages to binding.
2. Die Futuristen – Umberto Boccioni, Carlo D. Carra, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini. Berlin: Der Sturm. No year indicated. German
3. November 1916, Sechsundvierzigste Ausstellung Franz Marc Gedächtnis Ausstellung, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon. Berlin: Der Sturm, [1913]. German.
4. Gemälde und Aquarelle / Holzschnitte. Berlin: Der Sturm, [1916]. German.
5. Sammlung Walden, Gemälden / Zeichnungen / Plastiken. Berlin: Der Sturm. No year indicated. German.
6. Die Neue Malerei, Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm. 1919. German.
7. Die Neue Malerei, Herwarth Walden. Berlin: Der Sturm, 1919. Third edition. German.
8. Francis Picabia, Sammlung Nell Walden. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1943. German.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.

251 original etchings made by artist Frank Brangwyn for the book "The Shadow of the Cross" (L'ombre de la Croix) by Jerome and Jean Tharaud, about the life the Carpathian Jews. [No publisher indicated, ca. 1931].
Included is the original copper plate used to print one of the etchings (cancelled).
The collection contains three sets of 73 identical etchings, differing in line boldness and shade, and two additional sets of 16 etchings not included in the book, also identical, differing in printing quality. Held in stiff cardboard case. On the paper portfolios holding the etchings are stickers with the name of the Parisian Lapina publishing house.
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) - British painter, engraver and graphic artist of Belgian origin. Brangwyn was knighted in 1941. The brothers Jerome and Jean Tharaud - French writers. Wrote a long series of books, conservative in tone, sometimes to the point of anti-Semitism. Nevertheless the Tharaud brothers took a great interest in Jews and wrote about them often, describing their customs and way of life.
Etchings of varying size on 24X32 cm leaves. Etchings in very good condition. Each set is held in a soft paper portfolio with thin paper dividers. The original cardboard portfolio is dismantled and held, together with the etchings, in a stiff cardboard case apparently made later, itself also worn and damaged.

Verve. Revue Artistique et Littéraire. Vol. VIII, Nos 33 et 34. Paris: Verve, 1956. French.
Issue no. 33-34 of "Verve". 105 black and white reproductions of good quality, and 28 original lithographs (16 in color), on biblical themes, created by Chagall during the years 1930-1955. Cover design by Chagall.
Volume: 36 cm. Good condition. Some stains (most stains are found on endpapers and title page). Some damages to binding and spine.