Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Die Balalaika, ein Versreigen von Arthur Silbergleit, mit 8 Lithographien von Hermann Struck [The Balalaika by Arthur Silbergleit, with 8 lithographs by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Vereinigung Kuenstlerdank (Clauss-Rochs-Stiftung) im Eigenbroedlerverlag, [1920?]. German.?Poems by the Jewish-German poet and writer Arthur Silbergleit (1881-1943, perished in Auschwitz), depicting his experiences during WWI; accompanied by eight lithographs by Hermann Struck, portraying villages and figures in Eastern Europe. Copy no. 61 from an edition of 100 copies. Signed by Silbergleit and Struck on the title-page.
41, [2] pp + [8] lithographic plates, 22 cm. Good condition. A few stains and minor blemishes. Cardboard binding with leather spine.
41, [2] pp + [8] lithographic plates, 22 cm. Good condition. A few stains and minor blemishes. Cardboard binding with leather spine.
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Arthur Holitscher, Gesang an Palästina, mit zwölf radierungen von Hermann Struck. [Arthur Holitscher, Song to Palestine, with twelve etchings by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner, 1922. German.?A poem in prose about Palestine by Arthur Holitscher. Accompanied by twelve etchings by Hermann Struck, depicting the views and inhabitants of Palestine. Copy number 153 of 320 copies, hand-signed by Hermann Struck on the colophon page.
28, [1] pp + [12] etchings, approx. 35 cm. Gilt upper edge. Good condition. Stains. Cardboard binding with leather spine. Wear and minor blemishes to spine and binding.
28, [1] pp + [12] etchings, approx. 35 cm. Gilt upper edge. Good condition. Stains. Cardboard binding with leather spine. Wear and minor blemishes to spine and binding.
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![Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cas](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/198_1.JPG "\"The Art of Etching\" by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1920 – Original Etchi")
![Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cas](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/198_2.JPG "\"The Art of Etching\" by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1920 – Original Etchi")
![Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cas](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/198_3.JPG "\"The Art of Etching\" by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1920 – Original Etchi")
![Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cas](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/198_4.JPG "\"The Art of Etching\" by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1920 – Original Etchi")
![Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cas](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/198_5.JPG "\"The Art of Etching\" by Hermann Struck – Berlin, 1920 – Original Etchi")
Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Die Kunst des Radierens, Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck [The Art of Etching, a handbook by Hermann Struck]. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1920. German. Fourth edition.?This book, describing the process of printing etchings, was published in five editions, with various etchings. This edition includes numerous reproductions of etchings and lithographs by various artists, five original etchings by Hermann Struck, Eduard Munk, Max Lieberman, Hans Meid and Paul Baum and an original lithograph by Max Slevgot. Gilt illustration of a printing press on the binding. [8], 279 pp + 6 plates, 23 cm. Good condition. Restored spine.
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![Four woodcuts by Joseph Budko, for poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik. [Early 1920s]. Four woodcuts, signed in pencil, made by Jos](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/199.JPG "Joseph Budko – Four Woodcuts for Poems by Bialik")
Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Four woodcuts by Joseph Budko, for poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik. [Early 1920s].
Four woodcuts, signed in pencil, made by Joseph Budko for the bibliophilic edition of Chaim Nachman Bialik's writings and translations, published by "Chovevei HaShirah HaIvrit" (Berlin, 1923).
Enclosed is a reproduction of a letter sent by Bialik to Budko (Hamburg, 1923) referring to the works of art before us.
Four woodcuts: approx. 17x12 cm (leaves: approx. 22x15c m). Good overall condition. Each one of the leaves is set in a passe-partout (with tissue guards).
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Four woodcuts, signed in pencil, made by Joseph Budko for the bibliophilic edition of Chaim Nachman Bialik's writings and translations, published by "Chovevei HaShirah HaIvrit" (Berlin, 1923).
Enclosed is a reproduction of a letter sent by Bialik to Budko (Hamburg, 1923) referring to the works of art before us.
Four woodcuts: approx. 17x12 cm (leaves: approx. 22x15c m). Good overall condition. Each one of the leaves is set in a passe-partout (with tissue guards).
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Das Kestnerbuch, literary anthology edited by Paul Erich Küppers. Hanover: Heinrich Böhme, 1919. German.
An anthology of expressionist literature, containing prose, poems, parts of plays, essays and articles by prominent figures in the world of German literature during the first decades of the 20th century. Among the writers: Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Else Lasker-Schüler and others.
The works in the book are accompanied by twelve plates of prints – six lithographs and six woodcuts – by the greatest expressionist artists of the era, among them, Erich Heckel, Ernst Barlach, Lyonel Feininger, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee and others.
158 pp + [12] plates, 28.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Cardboard binding. Minor blemishes to binding. Tears to spine.
Not in NLI.
An anthology of expressionist literature, containing prose, poems, parts of plays, essays and articles by prominent figures in the world of German literature during the first decades of the 20th century. Among the writers: Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Else Lasker-Schüler and others.
The works in the book are accompanied by twelve plates of prints – six lithographs and six woodcuts – by the greatest expressionist artists of the era, among them, Erich Heckel, Ernst Barlach, Lyonel Feininger, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee and others.
158 pp + [12] plates, 28.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Cardboard binding. Minor blemishes to binding. Tears to spine.
Not in NLI.
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![Arthur Kolnik, Herz Grossbarts Recitations-Gestalten, 12 Holzschnitte [Hertz Grossbart … 12 woodcuts] Paris: Künster-Gemeins](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/201_1.JPG "Herz Grossbarts Recitations-Gestalten – Woodcuts by Arthur Kolnik – Pa")
![Arthur Kolnik, Herz Grossbarts Recitations-Gestalten, 12 Holzschnitte [Hertz Grossbart … 12 woodcuts] Paris: Künster-Gemeins](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/201_2.JPG "Herz Grossbarts Recitations-Gestalten – Woodcuts by Arthur Kolnik – Pa")
Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Arthur Kolnik, Herz Grossbarts Recitations-Gestalten, 12 Holzschnitte [Hertz Grossbart … 12 woodcuts] Paris: Künster-Gemeinschaft, 1933. German.
A portfolio with 11 plates of reproductions of woodcuts by Arthur Kolnik – characters from the stories of I.L. Peretz, Shalom Aleichem, A. Lutzky, Moyshe Kulbak, Moyshe Nadir and M.L. Halpern. The portfolio also contains an original woodcut by Kolnik – a portrait of the Jewish-Romanian actor Hertz Grosbard (1895-1994).
Copy no. 86 of a deluxe edition of 100 copies. Numbered and signed by Kolnik on the colophon.
[8] pp, [1] woodcut (approx. 17x21 cm) and [11] reproduction plates, all in an original portfolio, 37cm. Good overall condition. Handwritten dedication on the colophon page (in English, dated 1964).
A portfolio with 11 plates of reproductions of woodcuts by Arthur Kolnik – characters from the stories of I.L. Peretz, Shalom Aleichem, A. Lutzky, Moyshe Kulbak, Moyshe Nadir and M.L. Halpern. The portfolio also contains an original woodcut by Kolnik – a portrait of the Jewish-Romanian actor Hertz Grosbard (1895-1994).
Copy no. 86 of a deluxe edition of 100 copies. Numbered and signed by Kolnik on the colophon.
[8] pp, [1] woodcut (approx. 17x21 cm) and [11] reproduction plates, all in an original portfolio, 37cm. Good overall condition. Handwritten dedication on the colophon page (in English, dated 1964).
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Naomi. Six poems by Iwan Goll accompanied by three original woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt. Berlin: Aldus Druck press, 1929. German.
Copy no. 55 of 150 numbered copies, which were printed for the annual convention of The Soncino Society on February 17, 1929.
[5] leaves, approx. 23.5 cm. Good condition.
Copy no. 55 of 150 numbered copies, which were printed for the annual convention of The Soncino Society on February 17, 1929.
[5] leaves, approx. 23.5 cm. Good condition.
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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A Jew in a town, an original drawing by Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968).
Colored pencils on paper. Signed.
The drawing is mounted on a blank leaf at the beginning of the book "Jakob Steinhardt", by the art historian Hans Tietze (Berlin-Frohnau: J.J. Ottens, [1930s]. German).
The book is about Steinhardt's works of art and contains pictures of his works from the years 1903-1930.
The drawing: 15x10 cm. Good condition. Minor creases. A stain on the left margin. The book: [1], 16 pp. [48] picture-plates, 19cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Stains on the binding.
Colored pencils on paper. Signed.
The drawing is mounted on a blank leaf at the beginning of the book "Jakob Steinhardt", by the art historian Hans Tietze (Berlin-Frohnau: J.J. Ottens, [1930s]. German).
The book is about Steinhardt's works of art and contains pictures of his works from the years 1903-1930.
The drawing: 15x10 cm. Good condition. Minor creases. A stain on the left margin. The book: [1], 16 pp. [48] picture-plates, 19cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Stains on the binding.
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Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Approx. 30 prints and sketches by Jacob Steinhardt and other items dealing with him and his works of art. [Germany and Palestine, ca. 1920s-1960s].
The collection contains many woodcuts (many of them signed by the artist), representing various stages of his art, alongside drawings, sketches for prints, a photograph of Steinhardt (by the photographer Warner Braun, signed by Steinhardt) and a catalog of an exhibition of his works which was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in June 1947.
Among the prints: * Woodcut for the book Ben Sira. [1929]. * Out of the Flames, 1929-1936, by S. Shalom – cover design, (1936). * Moses, 1938. Made for the International Exhibition in New-York, 1939. * Winter in Zerkow, 1957.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
The collection contains many woodcuts (many of them signed by the artist), representing various stages of his art, alongside drawings, sketches for prints, a photograph of Steinhardt (by the photographer Warner Braun, signed by Steinhardt) and a catalog of an exhibition of his works which was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in June 1947.
Among the prints: * Woodcut for the book Ben Sira. [1929]. * Out of the Flames, 1929-1936, by S. Shalom – cover design, (1936). * Moses, 1938. Made for the International Exhibition in New-York, 1939. * Winter in Zerkow, 1957.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
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![Jerusalem, a woodcut by Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968), [1940]. Signed in pencil. Woodcut: approx. 21x30c m. Good condition. C](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/205.JPG "Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968) – Jerusalem – Woodcut")
Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Jerusalem, a woodcut by Jacob Steinhardt (1887-1968), [1940].
Signed in pencil.
Woodcut: approx. 21x30c m. Good condition. Creases and minor stains on the margins of the leaf.
Kolb 212.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Signed in pencil.
Woodcut: approx. 21x30c m. Good condition. Creases and minor stains on the margins of the leaf.
Kolb 212.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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![Shtetl, mayn khorever heym – a gedekhenish [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home – A Remembrance]. Berlin: Schwellen, [1923]. Album-form](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/206_1.JPG "\" Shtetl, My Destroyed Home\" – Berlin, 1923 – Lithographs by Issachar")
![Shtetl, mayn khorever heym – a gedekhenish [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home – A Remembrance]. Berlin: Schwellen, [1923]. Album-form](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/206_2.JPG "\" Shtetl, My Destroyed Home\" – Berlin, 1923 – Lithographs by Issachar")
![Shtetl, mayn khorever heym – a gedekhenish [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home – A Remembrance]. Berlin: Schwellen, [1923]. Album-form](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/206_3.JPG "\" Shtetl, My Destroyed Home\" – Berlin, 1923 – Lithographs by Issachar")
Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 4, 2019
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Shtetl, mayn khorever heym – a gedekhenish [Shtetl, My Destroyed Home – A Remembrance]. Berlin: Schwellen, [1923].
Album-format book with 30 lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935), including title. The logo of the publishing house was also designed by Ryback.
XXXI, [1] leaves, approx. 33X49.5 cm. The original table of contents leaf is missing and instead, a printed table of contents leaf in Russian was mounted on the last page. Good condition. Stains. Creases and several small tears to edges. Pen signature on front endpaper. Binding made of purple velvety cloth, stained and slightly rubbed, with strips made of different cloth in the margins and spine.
Album-format book with 30 lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935), including title. The logo of the publishing house was also designed by Ryback.
XXXI, [1] leaves, approx. 33X49.5 cm. The original table of contents leaf is missing and instead, a printed table of contents leaf in Russian was mounted on the last page. Good condition. Stains. Creases and several small tears to edges. Pen signature on front endpaper. Binding made of purple velvety cloth, stained and slightly rubbed, with strips made of different cloth in the margins and spine.
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![Issachar Ber Ryback, zayn lebn un shafan [Issachar Ber Ryback, His Life and Work]. Editor: Eliyahu Cherikover. Paris: Komitet](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/207_1.JPG "Issachar Ber Ryback – \"His Life and Work\" – Paris, 1937 – Numbered Cop")
![Issachar Ber Ryback, zayn lebn un shafan [Issachar Ber Ryback, His Life and Work]. Editor: Eliyahu Cherikover. Paris: Komitet](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol19-public/207_2.JPG "Issachar Ber Ryback – \"His Life and Work\" – Paris, 1937 – Numbered Cop")
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Issachar Ber Ryback, zayn lebn un shafan [Issachar Ber Ryback, His Life and Work]. Editor: Eliyahu Cherikover. Paris: Komitet tsu fareybikn dem ondek fun Issesokher Ber Ribak [the committee for commemorating Issachar Ber Ryback], 1937. Yiddish.?A book dedicated to the life and work of the artist Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935). Includes a large portrait of Ryback, 32 reproductions of his works (some in color) and essays by Arnold Zweig, Mane Katz, Marc Chagall and others.?Copy no. 63 of a deluxe edition of 100 copies. Gilt-decorated vellum.?[1] leaf, [1] plate, 93, [1] pp, [1] leaf, [32] plates, [3] pp. 32.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains and minor blemishes. Ownership stamps. The binding is wrapped with parchment paper cover.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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