STAADT Heinrich - Hofbuchhandlung Wiesbaden - Julius Baum - Ernst Oppler - Franz Werfel - Hermann Struck - Emil Orlik - Arthur Schnitzler - Max Brod - [...] ( Einträger ) :
Reference : 43500
" Wiesbaden, Hofbuchhandlung Heinrich Staadt, 1921 - 1928, in-4° Album, 31 x 25 cm, ca. 400 unpaginated pages, bound in full red morocco with gilt ruling and title on the front cover, five raised bands and gilt title on the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. ( Signed binding H. Fikentscher Leipzig 1920). Binding with minor traces of use, some edges of the uncut leaves a bit browned but the album is in a fine state of preservation. Interesting guestbook of the bookdealer company Hofbuchhandlung Heinrich Staadt Wiesbaden which contains the signatures, the contributions, the original drawings of many postwar artists and literary figures in Germany during the Weimar period. Many of the signatories were of Jewish origine and would be obliterated from German cultural life within the next decade. Some names ; Waldemar Bonsels , Liesbeth Dill , Friedrich Hübner (drawing) , Friedrich von T.? , Hans Christiansen ( portrait drawing) , Walter Jacob (drawing) , E. Frank (portrait drawing) , Leo Sternberg , Felix Merem (portrait drawing ) , ? Jasper , Fried Lübbecke , Karl Berger , Alfred Bock , Konrad Dreher , Bertha Freifrau von Nauendorf , Christian Heinrich Kleukens , Max Thalman , Alexander Eliasberg , Dimitri Mereschkovsky , Rudolf Dietz ( poem ) , Siegfried Wagner , Herman Struck , Eric Franck (drawing ) , Adam Karillon , Ernst Horneffer, Ernst Oppler (drawing of a ballerina ) , Emil Orlik , Arthur Schnitzler , Max Brod (text) , Adolf von Hatzfeld , Hermann Kesser , Colin Ross, Friedrich Schönemann [...] In all there are 54 entries ; 1 music stave , 8 drawings, 33 with a text , 12 signatures. Some of the entries were not identified by us.."