Volume of issues of Ver Sacrum, the journal of the Viennese Secession. Vienna, January-December 1898. German.
Twelve booklets (entire set of first year issues) - issues 1-12 + additional issue, unnumbered.
The journal Ver Sacrum was published in the years 1898-1903 as the official journal of the Viennese Secession - an art movement founded in 1897, whose members were artists (painters, sculptors and architects) who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists. The movement's first president was Gustav Klimt.The journal's issues reviewed activity in all the artistic fields, and included works by the movement's artists alongside essays by prominent poets and writers, such as Reiner Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Arno Holz and many others.
The present issues include illustrations by Gustav Klimt (volume no. 3 is dedicated entirely to Klimt), Alphonse Mucha, Alfred Roller, Fernand Khnopff and others.
12 issues (number of pages varies from issue to issue), volume 30X29 cm. Top edges gilt. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears to margins of some leaves. Some leaves detached or loose. Front cover of the second issue is detached and torn (with open tears). Lower margins chopped (sometimes with damage to page numbers or cover illustrations). Damage to binding.