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Olbrich – Schreyl, Karl Heinz. Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908). Die Zeichnungen in der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. (The Drawings at the Berlin Art Library.) 1972. 4to. 360 pp. With ca. 600 (30 in colours) ills. Orig. cloth.

The  critical  inventory  catalogue  – honoured as one the 50 most beautiful books of the year 1972 – of the bequest of drawings of the, so Wolfgang Pehnt, “chief architect and designer of the artist colony at Darmstadt” as the “scene (of his) triumphant successes” (first the Mathildenhöhe), the builder of the Vienna Secession Building , the department store Tietz (Kaufhof) in Dusseldorf etc. – Illustrations + texts to about 2300 items illustrate both the method of the artist as one of the most interesting epochs of newer architecture. Out of print and wanted since the early ’80s. – From the introduction:

“ … the Olbrich Collection available for readers in the Art Library since 1912 represents the probably most extensive and informative bequest of a newer architect in public possession. ”

Offer no. 9,508 / EUR  271. / export price EUR  257. (c. US$ 338.) + shipping