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Velhagen und Klasing, Published 1903. Wrappers, 154 pp.; 26 cm; text in German; illustrated with a title plate and 184 black-and-white illustrations.
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In acceptable condition. Cloth-laminated wrappers, rust on spine and rear, rust and cream on front, with gilt Jugendstil lettering and design; top edge gilt. Bumping and creasing to edges and corners, moderate shelf wear and soiling. Binding extremely brittle and weak: spine cracked in several places, first eight pages including half title and title page detached as a unit, remaining leaves beginning to pull apart at the foot. All pages present. Pages toned with light to moderate foxing, edges browned, otherwise unmarked. Heilmeyer (1872-1940) was an art historian in Munich; his foreword is dated October 1902. Volume 10 of Velhagen und Klasing's Sammlung illustrierter Monographien, issued as a Liebhaber-Ausgabe. The survey runs from Rauch and Rietschel through Begas, Hildebrand, Klinger, Wagmuller, Stuck and Wrba, arranged by problem rather than chronology: the costume in monumental sculpture, portraiture, sculpture and tectonics, the fountain, the grave monument. The frontispiece is Max Klinger's Beethoven, unveiled in April 1902 at the fourteenth Vienna Secession exhibition, for which Klimt painted the Beethoven Frieze. Last plate is Klinger's Nietzsche (Abbildung 185). Text in Fraktur. Index of sculptors and works at the rear.