Das Peter Hille-Buch.
AUCTION 55 |
Thursday, June 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 177
LASKER-SCHÜLER, ELSE.
Das Peter Hille-Buch.
Berlin: Axel Juncker 1906
Est: $300 - $500
A noted Expressionist poet and playwright, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was celebrated among Berlin’s literary avant-garde circles for her extravagant bohemian lifestyle. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement and is best known for works in which she presents a fictionalized version of her life. The subject of critical controversy, these works have been alternately viewed as enigmatic masterpieces and as the failed experiments of a highly egocentric talent.
Upon the rise of Nazism, Lasker-Schuller was forced to flee Germany and spent the last eight years of her life in Jerusalem, leading an itinerant life, often confused and increasingly steeped in lonliness and poverty.