Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Bühnenentwürfe. Stage Designs
Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 108pp., vol. 2 plates. Original green cloth with black lettering on spine, housed in same color paper-covered slipcase with color illustration and black lettering on cover, spine blank. Designed by Axel Menges. Text in German and English on facing pages. Vol. 1: Commentary. Vol. 2: Plates - photographed by Klaus Leibing and Jörg P. Anders.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) was twenty-one when he exhibited his first work in an exhibition at the Berlin Akademia, a set design for the final scene of the tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis, showing a complex scene including the sacrificial procession at the Temple of Diana. It made a great impression on the architect Johan Gottfired Schadow who mentioned it in his memoirs: "... It so surpassed everything so far seen in this field that it evoked general admiration."
The text volume contains notes and the catalog of plates at rear. It is illustrated with numerous b/w reproductions of set designs. Volume two contains thirty-two breathtaking double-page color reproductions of set design rendered in high-quality phototype. Contains descriptive list of set designs with title of play or opera at rear of volume two. Minor wear to slipcase and bindings. Near fine to fine condition. Item #55445
ISBN: 3433021759
Price: $275.00