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Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, 1988. Hardcover, [72] pp (pp. 5-15 numbered, plate section unpaginated); 28 cm; text in German; fourth printing (Vierte Auflage, copyright 1976); 28 plates (17 in color) with 47 black-and-white illustrations in all, including comparison images facing each plate.
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Pale green glossy illustrated paper-covered boards, color reproduction of Nagel's pastel Im Gartenlokal "Ida Hoppe" (1936) to front, black-and-white self-portrait (1949) and passage from his autobiography to rear; mild surface and edge wear with some light scuffing. Binding tight. Mild toning to edges of text block. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Monograph on Otto Nagel (1894-1967), painter of Berlin's working-class Wedding district, in the GDR series Welt der Kunst. Wolfgang Hutt's essay follows Nagel from his debut at Ernst Friedrich's Arbeiter-Kunst-Ausstellung in 1921 through the Wedding portraits and street scenes of the 1920s, the Nazi ban on his painting and his imprisonment at Sachsenhausen, the pastels of old Berlin, and his postwar presidency of the Deutsche Akademie der Kunste. A two-column chronology, Die Zeit und der Kunstler, sets his life against political events. Each of the 28 plates, among them Selbstbildnis mit Hut (1920), Lotte mit Puppe (1921), Parkbank am Wedding (1927) and Der alte Maler (1963), has a facing commentary with comparison works by Kathe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmuller, Hugo Krayn, Lesser Ury and Hans Thoma. Includes bibliography.