Othon Coubine (Junge Kunst Band 33)

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1923 (German language), Band 33 (first edition), pictorial stiff card boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 9 pages text. Very Good Condition, shows well, pages clean, backstrip in great shape, cracking before the plates gathering, pages cockling near spine, light wear at extremities. In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Othon Coubine (nee Otakar, or Ottokar, Kubin) was born on October 22 , 1883 in Boskovice in Austria-Hungary, and died October 7 , 1969 in Marseille. He was a Czech (more precisely Moravian) painter who moved to Paris in 1912 where he took the name of Coubine. He was member of the Prague artists' group "The Eight" and was a friend of Pablo Picasso. A classic title from early 20th century Germany; art history in your hand.