Clemens Klotz - Josef Fieth
Berlin, Leipzig, Wien: Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original blue cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, in original glassine dustjacket protected by modern mylar. Publisher's devices on half-title and title page. Photographs by H. Schmölz, Jos. Syberz, W. Mantz, and Herm. Holdt.
"As much as we may be impressed by the dominant goal to settle and simplify the cluttered stock of architecture, we are nevertheless, particularly today, struggling to gain insight that everything generic derives its meaning and fulfillment from the diversity of the natural being..." (With).
A photographic study of architecture in Frankfurt and Cologne. Frankfurt contrasting the arbitrariness of nature with universal conceptual architectural theories while Cologne leaves the universal to play out in its diversity and therefore protecting against dogma and the quixotic.
Illustrated with b/w photographs of architecture on thirty-five plates, exterior and interior views of housing and business, juxtaposing the different approaches to architecture in these cities. Includes photos of the business of fur trader Weis, the houses of Clemens Klotz and Josef Fieth, Katz, Heckmann, residential buildings in Marienburg, Oberländerwall, Sülzgürtel, the Aachener Strassea, the waterworks of the City of Cologne (model), the Hochpfortenhaus, among others. Includes some models, architectural drawings and plans. Contains eighteen pages of illustrated advertisements at rear. Text in German. Glassine with small chips, closed tear and light creasing on inside front flap. Near fine condition. Item #54082
Karl With was a German art historian, author, and museum director. He received his doctor degree under Josef Strzygowski on "Buddhist Sculpture in Japan" in 1918, and was the director of the Folkwang Museum from 1919 to 1921, followed by a guest professorship in Bonn. In 1925 the then mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer appointed Karl With professor for art history at the Cologne Werkschulen. In 1928 he became director of the Museum for Applied Art in Cologne and in 1931, in a double function, director of the Cologne Werkschulen. Deemed a "panderer of degenerate art" by the Nazis, Karl With was dismissed from all public offices prompting him to move to Berlin where he worked for the Ullstein Verlag. Freiherr von Heydt invited him to the Ascona Artist Colony in 1936 and in 1939 With emigrated to the USA. In 1950 he became professor at UCLA until 1966. Karl With is the author of numerous art books on Far Eastern art.
Price: $950.00