Das Wielandslied der aelteren Edda (portfolio of woodcuts and text), 1923.

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Das Wielandslied der aelteren Edda (portfolio of woodcuts and text), 1923.

Published by the Bauhaus publishing house in a first and final numbered edition of 110 copies in 1923, this portfolio, no. 44, contains four pages of text rendering the Wieland Saga of the Edda in a translation by Karl Simrock and 10 woodcuts illustrating this text by Gerhard Marcks. While the woodcuts were printed in the press of the Bauhaus, the text was printed by Dietsch & Br"uckner, Weimar, and the enclosure was produced by Dorfner, Weimar.

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Bauhaus

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Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Marcks, Gerhard

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Sculptor, monumental stone sculptor, bronze, and woodcuts. Born in Berlin, East Germany in 1889. Taught at School of Applied Art, Bauhaus, Halle and Hamburg. Last of Germany's three "Expressionist" sculptors. From the description of Gerhard Marcks letters from Frans Wildenhain, 1950-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122719 German painter and Bauhaus teacher from 1919-1924. From the description of Das Wielandslied der aelteren Edda (portfolio of woodcuts and ...

Simrock, Karl Joseph, 1802-1876

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