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CARL OTTO CZESCHKA (1876-1960) DIE QUELLE. 30 plates. Unbound. 1900. 11 1/2x9 3/4 inches, 29x25 cm. Martin Gerlach, Vienna. Conditions vary, generally B+: minor foxing at edges of the individual plates. With the original decorated cloth portfolio cover. Lacks the back cover. The first in the exquisite, three volume series "Die Quelle" [The Source], featuring Secessionist designs by three of the movement's biggest names: Carl Otto Czeschka, Max Benirschke and Koloman Moser. This first volume is dedicated to "all sorts of thoughts in vignette form." The thirty plates contain Czeschka's illustrations, drawings, ex libris and menus, appearing several to a page, in black-and-white and one other color. Most of the images are dated 1900, which provides us the printing date, and from the cover we learn it is volume one. Czeschka was one of the key members of the Wiener Werkstätte, working as an illustrator, graphic designer, typographer and more.
