America Central
San Salvador: Max Vollmberg, 1920. First edition. Loose leaf. Small Elephant Folio. [9] 40 plates. Original string-tied portfolio, half-cloth over textured boards with white lettering and color plate laid to front cover. Decorative initials in red on text plates. Preface in four languages and list of titles of his paintings.
"This album is intended to do no more than reproduce the impressions of an artist who, for love of traveling, has spent much time in these lands in the expectant of such impressions. Held in this country for many years by an extraordinary chain of circumstances, he had ample opportunity of penetrating daily deeper into the beauties of nature of Central America, and to be influenced by their poetical aspects. Here and there he obtained glimpses of the fulness of life, and with his brush he enthusiastically endeavored to hold fast the beauty he was permitted ti experience... The life he portrays, whether of human beings, animals, or plants; the landscapes, even those depicting nature's most frightful catastrophes, the devastation of volcanic eruptions; whatever the subject, all that is picturesque in this country is for him a festival of light and color." (Vollmberg)
Text in English, German, French and Spanish. Light wear along edges of portfolio with one and a half inch closed tear at bottom of front joint. Light scuffing and staining on back cover. Front flap with two small closed tears at to. Some foxing to narrow edges of inside flaps. Good+ to very good condition. Item #55486
Max Vollmberg (1882- ) studied under Philipp Frank Meyerheim and Lovis Corinth, and in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. Vollmberg published several books on his travels and illustrated children's books.
Price: $500.00