Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 152

(LIEBERMANN, MAX)

Heine, Heinrich. Der Rabbi von Bacherach

ONE OF 400 NUMBERED COPIES. With 16 original lithographs. Frontispiece and colophon signed by Liebermann Original morocco-backed boards with lithographed illustration on front cover, gently rubbed at extremities, head of backstrip starting. Sm. folio

Berlin: Propyläen Verlag 1923

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $800

Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was one of the most important figures in the world of German art from the turn of the twentieth century until his demise. Much of his life was spent in Holland, whose rather bleak paysage exerted a profound influence on his landscape paintings. Liebermann was also a portraitist; his subjects included philosopher Hermann Cohen, playright Georg Brandes, and politician Walter Rathenau. Very rarely did Liebermann focus on exclusively Jewish subjects. The lithographs he did for Heinrich Heine’s Rabbi of Bacherach are unique in this respect. See EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 223-4