"Through the Night" – A Series of Linocuts by Ari Glas, Depicting the Destruction of European Jewry – Johannesburg ...

"Through the Night" – A Series of Linocuts by Ari Glas, Depicting the Destruction of European Jewry – Johannesburg, 1943 – Limited Edition Signed by Glas
Through the Night, a Story without Words, 20 Original Lino-Cuts by Erich Glas. Johannesburg (South Africa): Anthony's, [1943 (dated in pencil: 1942)]. English. Limited edition, signed by Glas.
Portfolio with 20 linocuts by Ari Glas, from the series Through the Night, with a foreword by Eric Rosenthal. The series Through the Night, depicting the destruction of European Jewry, was created by Glas in 1942, in Kibbutz Yagur. His granddaughter Hagar Lev recalled its creation: "In the winter of 1942, burning with high fever, a Bauhaus artist hallucinates in his sleep. He envisions unspeakable horrors: oppression, mass killing and incomprehensible horrors taking place in Europe. Still feverish, he starts making sketches…".
Glas wanted to publish the series in Palestine; however, the publishing houses which he approached turned him down, fearing the prints will cause panic. Consequently, he published the series in South Africa, in English (the Hebrew edition was eventually published only ca. 1945).
Only 200 copies of the portfolio were printed. This copy is unnumbered. All 20 prints are signed in pencil by Glas. His signature also appears on the second page: "Ari Glas 1942" (Hebrew).
Ari Glas (born Erich Glas; 1897-1973), an Israeli painter, graphic designer and photographer, born in Berlin. During World War I he served as a pilot in the German Army. In the years 1919-1920, he studied at the Bauhaus school (one of his teachers being Lyonel Feininger), specializing in woodcuts and linocuts. Following the Nazi party's rise to power he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Kibbutz Yagur, where he continued his artistic work. In Israel he Hebraized his name, and joined the Haganah (in whose service he even conducted reconnaissance flights). After the establishment of the State of Israel, he displayed his works in several group exhibitions and illustrated a number of books, including Aesop's Fables, "The Nightingale" (Hebrew) by Hans Christian Andersen, the Kibbutz Yagur Haggadah and more.
[3]; [20] leaves, 32 cm. Original paper portfolio, printed. Good condition. Minor stains, mostly to first leaves, and several small tears to edges. Stains and small tears to the portfolio (to edges and spine).
Not in OCLC.