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STINNES COPY (GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM.) Glaser, Curt. Graphik der Neuzeit. Original etchings by Lovis Corinth, Edvard Munch, Max Pechstein, Hans Purrmann, a woodcut by Max Slevogt, and lithographs by Max Liebermann and Oskar Kokoschka, with lettered tissue guards. 260x190mm; 10 1/4x7 1/2 inches, full page, wide margins, stamped with ownership stamp of Hugo Stinnes and numbered 1/150 in pencil, lower margins. 4to, handsome full crushed rose morocco with gilt borders on covers and raised bands along spine; top edges trimmed and gilt, others trimmed; cloth and board slipcase, some fading. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1922
copy number 1, formerly in the collection of hugo stinnes, boldly signed by him on half-title, dated I.VII.1923. From a total edition of 150. Stinnes, the great German industrial titan and politician, was also one of the most enlightened and famous art collectors of his time. He was the first to own Max Beckmann's portfolio "Hell" of 1919 which was also coincidentally the same year George Grosz depicted him in a scathing portrait titled "The Secret Emperor. (The Industrialist Hugo Stinnes)" In his collecting, Stinnes was also known for attaining copy number 1 of a work's limitation for his library as with this volume.
