The Book Covers in the Weimar Republic
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452 pp
Freed from the of the Empire and Prussian cadaver obedience, intellectual and cultural life in Germany experienced an unprecedented flowering after the First World War. Tucholsky relocates the "World Stage", Bertolt Brecht revolutionizes the theater, Siegfried Kracauer goes to the cinema with the little shop girls, Walter Benjamin translates Proust, and in Berlin, the linchpin of this era, people discuss Freud, twelve-tone music, the current coke prices, Max Beckmann or Otto Dix and dance the plaster off the walls.
A new attitude to life, the desire to experiment, the spirit of modernity has found its way in, and this is also reflected in the book covers of this era, be it John Heartfield's legendary book covers for the Malik publishing house and others or in Georg Salter's world-famous cover design for Döblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz".
The collector, antiquarian and publisher Jürgen Holstein has compiled these titles and presented them for the first time in "Blickfang", a private print celebrated by the feuilleton as a cultural-historical pioneering act and unfortunately quickly out of print – this second chance should not be missed.
"Book Covers of the Weimar Republic" shows 1,000 of the most impressive examples of cover design from the years of the Weimar Republic.
Expert essays shed light on the cultural background of this unique era of innovation and artistic daring, in which a better Germany seemed possible and which came to a miserable end with the economic crisis and the rise of National Socialism.
Whether it's a children's book, world literature, political polemics or minimalist artist monographs – Book Covers shows an explosion of creativity, an unleashed imagination that will captivate anyone interested in literature, typography, illustration, art history or simply beautiful books. A feast for the eye as well as the spirit, picture book, reading book and reference work at the same time, and a monument to an outstanding chapter in German design history.
452 pp
Freed from the of the Empire and Prussian cadaver obedience, intellectual and cultural life in Germany experienced an unprecedented flowering after the First World War. Tucholsky relocates the "World Stage", Bertolt Brecht revolutionizes the theater, Siegfried Kracauer goes to the cinema with the little shop girls, Walter Benjamin translates Proust, and in Berlin, the linchpin of this era, people discuss Freud, twelve-tone music, the current coke prices, Max Beckmann or Otto Dix and dance the plaster off the walls.
A new attitude to life, the desire to experiment, the spirit of modernity has found its way in, and this is also reflected in the book covers of this era, be it John Heartfield's legendary book covers for the Malik publishing house and others or in Georg Salter's world-famous cover design for Döblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz".
The collector, antiquarian and publisher Jürgen Holstein has compiled these titles and presented them for the first time in "Blickfang", a private print celebrated by the feuilleton as a cultural-historical pioneering act and unfortunately quickly out of print – this second chance should not be missed.
"Book Covers of the Weimar Republic" shows 1,000 of the most impressive examples of cover design from the years of the Weimar Republic.
Expert essays shed light on the cultural background of this unique era of innovation and artistic daring, in which a better Germany seemed possible and which came to a miserable end with the economic crisis and the rise of National Socialism.
Whether it's a children's book, world literature, political polemics or minimalist artist monographs – Book Covers shows an explosion of creativity, an unleashed imagination that will captivate anyone interested in literature, typography, illustration, art history or simply beautiful books. A feast for the eye as well as the spirit, picture book, reading book and reference work at the same time, and a monument to an outstanding chapter in German design history.
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