Eindrücke aus dem Leben der Vogel, Zwanzig Steinzeichnungen und Text von Emil Pottner [Impressions from the Life of Birds, Twenty Lithographs and Text by Emil Pottner]. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1912. German.
"Impressions from the Life of Birds", text and illustrations by Emil Pottner, in lithographic printing. Numbered copy, 55/60, with artist's signature on colophon page.
Half title - lithograph printed on silk fabric (attached to paper). Colorful, artistic leather binding, with birds and clouds in the sky (signed: Rene Kieffer).
Emil Pottner (1872-1942) - Austrian Jewish artist, son of a family of actors. Painter, graphic artist and ceramic artist. Lived and worked in Berlin. After the Nazi rise to power he was forced to close his ceramics workshop. In 1942 he was sent to Theresienstadt, from there to Treblinka and then to Maly Trostenets concentration camp, where he was murdered.
[3], 20, [1] leaf, 31 cm. Gilt edges. Good condition. Wear and rubbing to spine. Held in cardboard slipcase.