VER SACRUM VIENNA SECESSION 1898 1 Gustav Klimt Art Nouveau Book W/ LITHOGRAPH
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VER SACRUM VIENNA SECESSION 1898 #1 JUGENDSTILGustav Klimt Art Nouveau ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH Koloman MoserOriginalissue of Ver Sacrum [Sacred Spring], the journal of the Vienna Secession(Wiener Secession), founded by Gustav Klimt and Max Kurzweil. This is the FIRSTissue from the first year of publication, dated January 1898. The first woyears of Ver Sacrum were produced in runs of just 600 copies per issue, 300 forSecession members and 300 more for general distribution. Many of the print...edissues were later bound for libraries and institutions in the period, oftenwithout their decorative wrappers – surviving and complete individual issuesare rare. This issue includes an original color lithograph by Wiener Werkstätte-designerKoloman Moser, as well as several contributions from Gustav Klimt, and JosephOlbrich, Josef Engelhart, Adolf Böhm, Josef Hoffmann, and many others. Coverillustration by Alfred Roller. With a subscription card for Ver Sacrum and a publisher’scolor lithographic ephemera bound-in at rear.Format:29 x 28cmFulltitle: Ver Sacrum. Organ derVereinigung bildender Kuenstler Österreichs, Vereinigung bildender KünstlerOsterreichsContibutorsto Ver Sacrum throughout its six-year run included: Egon Schiele, MaxFabiani, Charles Leandre, Minka Pod.hajska, Leopold Stolba, Anton Nowak, Marianne Schonwald, Karl Muller, 1862-1938; Maximilian Liebenwein, , KolomanMoser, Ernst Stohr, Wilhelm Schmidt, Max Kurzweil, Leopold Bauer, WilhelmLaage, Emil Orlik, Aubrey Beardsley, Josef Hoffmann, Max Benirschke, Ludwig vonHofmann, Johann Victor Kramer, Rudolf Jettmar, Irma von Duczynska, Felician vonMyrbach-Rheinfeld, Friedrich König, Adolf Böhm, Wilhelm List, Josef MariaAuchentaller, Otto Friedrich, Rudolf Bacher, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, RainerMaria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Richard Dehmel, RicardaHuch, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Arno Holz, Joseph Olbrich, Alfred Roller and manyothers.Pleasesee our OTHER AUCTIONS for similar items relating to the Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätte.
