Politischer Bilderbogen. Eight issues from a series of German caricaturist pamplets.

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 54

(ANTISEMITICA)

Politischer Bilderbogen. Eight issues from a series of German caricaturist pamplets.

Numbers 2-8 and 25. Each number was issued as a booklet that opens to present a tableau 19 1/2 x 25 inches. The earlier numbers are tinted (No. 2 green; No. 3 salmon pink; No. 4 sepia; No. 5 yellow; No. 6, tan). The later numbers (7, 8, 25) are black and white. Original self-wrappers

Dresden: Glöss 1892-93 and 1898

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Politische Bilderbogen was an anti-Semitic caricature series which appeared in Dresden between 1892 and 1901 in 33 issues. Jews are portrayed in a most pernicious manner as a blight overruning German society. Although penned anonymously, it is reasonable to assume the author was the poet Max Bewer. See Eduard Fuchs, Die Juden in der Karikatur (1921), pl. 2, 210, 211 and discussion on p. 240.