Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
Five Books by Writer and Philosopher Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona) – Germany, 1920-1932 – Two Books Inscribed by Friedlaender
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Five Books by Salomo Friedlaender (Mynona). Germany, 1920-1932. German. Two of the books are inscribed by him.
1. Der Schöpfer, Phantasie [The Creator, Fantasy]. Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1920. Illustrated by Alfred Kubin (1877-1959). 2. George Grosz. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer, 1922. Including thirty-seven reproductions of works by George Grosz (1893-1959). 3. Mein hundertster Geburtstag u.a. Grimassen [My hundredth birthday and other Grimaces]. Vienna-Leipzig: Jahoda & Siegel, 1928. 4. Der Philosoph Ernst Marcus als Nachfolger Kants. Sein Leben und Lehre [The philosopher Ernst Marcus as Kant's successor. His life and teachings]. Essen: G.D. Baedeker, 1930. Inscribed on title page by Friedlaender – Halensee (Berlin), 16.1.1931. 5. Kant gegen Einstein [Kant versus Einstein]. Berlin: Der Neue Geist, 1932. Inscribed on title page by Friedlaender to his sister Agathe Borchardt – Halensee (Berlin), March 1932.
Salomo Friedlaender (1871-1946), Jewish-German writer, publicist and philosopher identified with the Avant-Garde Movement and Dadaism. In 1906, after completing his doctoral studies at the Jena University, he moved to Berlin, where he befriended several of the prominent thinkers and artists of the era: Martin Buber, Else Lasker-Schüler, Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam, Alfred Kubin and others. He used to sign his literary publications, which were published for the first time in various Avant-Garde journals, with the pseudonym Mynona (an anagram of "Anonym" – anonymous). In 1919, he cofounded with the writer and publicist Anselm Ruest (the pseudonym of his relative Ernst Samuel) the anarchist journal Der Einzige. Several weeks after the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, Friedlaender moved to Paris, where he died lonely and penniless in 1946.
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