Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #41190 Kalidasa: Der Winter mit einer Originalradierung nach einer chinesischen Tuschzeichnung von Arno Nadel [SIGNED]. Justus Lichten.
Kalidasa: Der Winter mit einer Originalradierung nach einer chinesischen Tuschzeichnung von Arno Nadel [SIGNED]
Kalidasa: Der Winter mit einer Originalradierung nach einer chinesischen Tuschzeichnung von Arno Nadel [SIGNED]

Kalidasa: Der Winter mit einer Originalradierung nach einer chinesischen Tuschzeichnung von Arno Nadel [SIGNED]

Berlin: Drei-Welten-Verlag, 1923. Limited edition. Softcover. 14/200 signed below etching by Arno Nadel. Elephant Folio (16 x 11 3/4"). 8pp. Original sewn cream handmade self wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on cover. Fünfter Einzeldruck (Fifth print) of Drei-Welten-Verlag with an original etching after a Chinese ink drawing by Arno Nadel. The poem "The Winter" (Der Winter) was translated into German by Peter von Bohlen. Text in German, Gothic script. Minor wear and light age-toning and creasing along edges of wraps. Wraps and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Item #41190

Arno Nadel (1878-1943) was Jewish a poet, musician, and artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania. At the age of 17 he moved to Berlin and enrolled in the College for Science of Judaism (Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums). Nadel worked as an educator and choirmaster. He became the choir director of the Jewish community in Berlin supervising the music at all Berlin synagogues. Nadel published poetry, plays, and worked on an anthology of synagogue music which he finished in 1938 and intended to publish in seven volumes. Nadel died in the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943.

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