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book (design) story #338

georg schmidt:
wege zur kunst unserer zeit

national-zeitung, basel, 1965
printer: offizin national-zeitung ag, basel
size: 13 x 22 cm
designer: (unknown)

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basel-based art historian and museum man georg schmidt (1896-1965) was an important author on modern art and design we have come across in numerous books of this collection.

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when schmidt died an 1965, this collection of his early articles on modern art was published by the basel-based national-zeitung where they originally appeared between 1921 and 1929. identical labels are on the spine and slipcase.

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among the tipped-in reproductions are this paintings by böcklin, cézanne, gauguin, kandinsky, munch and nolde.

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the booklet was printed in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies.

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