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Hintergrund : 17 Zeichnungen zur Aufführung des "Schwejk" in der Piscator-Bühne

Title: Hintergrund : 17 Zeichnungen zur Aufführung des "Schwejk" in der Piscator-Bühne / George Grosz.
Author: Grosz, George, 1893-1959.
Publication: Berlin : Malik-Verlag, c1928.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Text	Supervised use	MWEP 01-1076	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Ger. 1928 92-29	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

17 photomechanical prints : Manul process, b&w; 18 x 27 cm.+

Subjects

Genre/Form

Expurgated editions.

Note

Accompanying sheet is title page.
Manul process printing by F. Ullmann G.m.b.H., Zwickau.
10,000 copies issued. Shortly after publication, the work was the subject of court proceedings on charges of blasphemy; 3 prints were ordered confiscated in 1928, affecting more than 3,000 copies, and one (no. 10) was ordered destroyed in 1931 (by which time no unsold copies remained). Cf. Dückers.
Numbered 1-17; numbering and legends on prints and title on portfolio reproduced from ms., probably in Grosz' hand.
Chiefly reproductions of drawings (some altered for this publication) for an animated film to be projected in the background of the stage production Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk, by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht (Berlin, 1928), which was a dramatization of Jaroslav Hašek's Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války.
Issued in ocher paper portfolio with additional print on front cover.

Indexed In (note)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1928 92-29

LCCN

33032193

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Author

Grosz, George, 1893-1959.

Title

Hintergrund : 17 Zeichnungen zur Aufführung des "Schwejk" in der Piscator-Bühne / George Grosz.

Imprint

Berlin : Malik-Verlag, c1928.

Indexed In:

Rifkind Center. German expressionist prints and drawings, 965

Dückers, A. George Grosz, das druckgraphische Werk, M VI

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Added Author

Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966. Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk.

Hašek, Jaroslav, 1883-1923. Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1928 92-29

MWEP 01-1076