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Die Kunst des Radierens: Ein Handbuch von Hermann Struck (The Art of Etching: Handbook by Hermann Struck) [WITH 4 ORIGINAL ARTWORKS]

Struck, Hermann; Karl Schwarz (Ed.)

Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1923. Fifth edition (10.-14. Thousand). Hardcover. Small Quarto. 331 [1]pp., 4 plates as called for, with captioned, decorative tissue guards, plus 2 original lithographs in text. Original black paper-covered boards, gilt-illustrated, framed and lettered on cover and spine. Top edge black. Tan endpapers. Frontispiece etching by Max Liebermann, Eislauf, with captioned tissue guard. Title page printed in red and black. This edition was printed at A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg. The original etchings by Liebermann and Struck, the woodcut by Barlach, and the Kokoschka lithograph were printed by A. Rogall in Berlin. With two-page address to Herman Struck by Alfred Kerr, rendered in rhymes. Includes biographical data on artists.

Magnificently illustrated with three additional full page original artworks by Hermann Struck, a Marc Chagall portrait (108), Oskar Kokoschka, Mädchenbildnis (156), and Ernst Barlach, Aus der Walpurgisnacht, woodcut (174), plus an untitled lithograph by Edouard Manet, and a lithography by Maurice de Vlaeminck, titled Vogel. All but Manet and de Vlaeminck with captioned tissue guards. In addition the work is illustrated with numerous b/w offset reproductions of artwork by numerous artists, including Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Lovis Corinth, Honoré Daumier, Albrecht Dürer, Wolfgang von Goethe, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Max Liebermann, Edouard Manet, Adolph von Menzel, Edvard Munch, Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Auguste Rodin, Felicien Rops, Lesser Ury, and many others. Three small illustrations of utensils plus a full page illustration by Toulouse-Lautrec (161) are rendered lithographically. Index, list of artwork, and table of contents at rear. Text in German. Minor wear along edges of binding. Lightly starting at page 160. Near fine to fine condition. Item #56079

The Art of Etching: A Handbook by Hermann Struck saw five steadily enlarged editions between 1908 to 1923, adding almost 100 pages between 1908 (238pp) by the time the fifth edition was printed in 1923 (331pp). The introduction offers the theoretical backdrop on the difference between painting and etching. The publication contains instructional texts covering the process of print making from the initial carving and acid treatment to the application of ink, the choice of paper and press, including guidance on artistic expression and graphic design.

All editions include original prints. First edition: five original prints incl. Paul Baum, Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch, Hermann Struck, Anders Zorn, with printed tissue guards. Second edition: five original prints incl. Paul Baum, Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch, Max Slevogt, Hermann Struck, with printed tissue guards. Third edition: six original prints incl. Paul Baum, Max Liebermann, Hans Meid, Edvard Munch, Max Slevogt, Hermann Struck. Fourth edition: six original prints including Paul Baum, Max Liebermann, Hans Meid, Edvard Munch, Max Slevogt, Hermann Struck. Fifth edition: four original prints incl. Ernst Barlach (Woodcut), Oskar Kokoschka (Lithograph), Max Liebermann, Hermann Struck, all with printed tissue guards.

The text and artwork are continuously expanded throughout the fives editions. The second, compared to the first edition, varies starting in the chapter headlined "Casual Remarks on the Images," with additional text on the artists Willi Geiger, Adolf Schinnerer, Carl Larsson, Lovis Corinth, Hans Meid, and Richard Winckel.

The third edition varies in the chapter "About Etching." On page 99 a short chapter on the process called "Cliche Verre" is added. Descriptive text is added for the artists Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Marcus Behmer, Heinrich Eickmann, August Gaul, Augustin Hirschvogel, Willi Jaeckel, Kokoschka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ludwih Meidner, Ernst Oppler, Max Pechstein, Emil Pottner, Hans Purrmann, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Robert F. K. Scholz, Jakob Steinhardt, Lesser Ury, and Ercich Wolfsfeld. Removed are Heinrich Eickmann, Arthur Illies, Richard Kaiser, Theo van Rysselberghe, Chr. H. Shannon, and Heinrich Vogeler.

The fourth edition varies compare to the third in that two artists are added, Joseph Budko and Paul Hermann.

The fifth edition adds the artists Thomas Bewick, Marc Chagall, Claude Lorrain, Charles Francois Daubigny, Paul Gavarni, Rudolf Grossmann, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Reinhold Hoberg, Karl Hofer, Moissey Kogan, Marie Laurencin, Louis Legrand, Heinrich Nauen, Julius Pscin, Joseph Pennell, Pablo Picasso, Klaus Richter, Paul A. Seehaus, Renée Sintenis, Maurice de Vlaminck,Albert Weisgerber, and Magnus Zeller. Franz von Stuck is removed.

Price: $350.00