Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Das Unbekannte in der Kunst

Stuttgart: C.E. Schwab Verlagsgesellschaft, 1947. First edition (Erstes bis fünftes Tausend). Hardcover. Quarto. 185, [3]pp. (Text), [64]pp. (Plates). Original cloth spine over printed paper covered boards, with red lettering on spine and front cover. Written secretly between 1943 and 1944, "Das Unbekannte in der Kunst" (The Unknown in Art) was first published in 1947, less than two years after the collapse of the Third Reich. This remarkable work provided evidence that Willi Baumeister had important things to say as a theoretician of a new, unencumbered art. Very minor age-toning on covers and along paper margin. Text in German. Binding and interior in overall good+ to very good condition. g. Item #33680

Price: $75.00

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