Grohmann Will Et Al (10 results)

Condition: Good unmarked. First Thus. Contains all the text plus 11 sepia and 33 full-color plates from the original Abrams hardcover edition. Solid clean tight copy of scarce book. 336 pp, sepia & color plates. MM paperback in color illus wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear and corner wear. Inside pages are clean. ; 74 pages B000LQUDT6.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 73 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November through December 1966. Features an essay by Will Grohmann. Includes biographical information about and illustrations by Kandinsky, Willi Baumeister, Robert Delaunay, Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin, August Macke, Franz Marc, Gabriele Munter, Oskar Schlemmer, Arnold Schoenberg, and Marianne von Werefkin. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear. …

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover without dustjacket; 176 pages; in German; as new condition; no internal marks.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Exceedingly scarce French language homage to the life and work of Vassily Kandinsky, published in a short run by the Institute of French Studies at Columbia University, bound in softpaper card stock, moderately rubbed exterior, a bit sunned along edges, but clean and unmarked of interior. Unopened top and fore-edges. Table of Contents inside front flap, then contributions by Will Grohmann, F. Morlion and Georges Marlier, each being art critics and historians, and then by working artists such as Christian Zervos, W. Baumeister, M. Seuphor, A. Sartoris, J.W.E. Buys, Diego di Rivera, Andre de Ridder, E.L. Cary, Galka E. Scheyer, and with bibliography and checklist. Long range of sharp and distinct black-and-white illustrations, printed on high-gloss paper, the final being a fine likeness of him. The lead author, Will Grohmann (4 December 1887 in Bautzen; died 6 May 1968 in Berlin), was, according to his Wikipedia entry, "a German art critic and art historian [who] specialized in German Expressionism and abstract art. He was known as the 'godfather of modernism'" (Wikipedia). No date of publication but perhaps early-mid '30s? His entry in an art history dictionary notes his having published over 500 essays on more than 150 artists including Kandinsky, but also Munch, Matisse, Picasso, Miró and others, and well over 1,000 newspaper articles and an untold number of Forewords and Introductions to exhibit catalogues.forewords.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. BINDING COPY ONLY.lacks spine, bowed etc, bit banged internally clean, Binding COPY ONLY.postage considerably extra.H5/5.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine condition. First edition. "Für mausi mit allen guten wünschen Max Bill am jahresende 1958" on front free endpaper. Octavo. 84pp. Original cream wraps with black lettering on cover and spine, in original glassine dustwrapper. Publication in appreciation of the Swiss architect, artist, painter, typographer and designer Max Bill. Contributions by Max Bense (Arguments for Max Bill), Will Grohmann (Tendency towards Synthesis), Richard P. Lohse (Unity of the Design Principle), Kurt Marti (The Second Commandment and Concrete Art), Annie Müller-Widmann (Dear Max Bill), Carlos Flexa Ribeiro (The Fiftieth; in French), Ernesto N. Rogers (The Unit of Max Bill; Italian), Ernst Scheidegger (Visual Report 1944-1958 on Max Bill) and Eugen Gomringer (Max Bill and Concrete Poetry). Illustrated with eight b/w photographs of Max Bill in professional and personal situations. Contains biographical data from 1928 to 1958 on Max Bill and short biographical sketches of the contributors at rear. Texts in German, one each in French and Italian.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+.

4to. pp. 53. German text. 2 woodcuts (one double page) by HAP Grieshaber. wrs. (front cover bit spotted). Edition limited to 700 printed copies.