Herwarth Walden – Exhibition Catalogue – "Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon", Berlin, 1913

"Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon", Berlin, 1913 [First German Autumn Salon, Berlin, 1913]. Berlin: Der Sturm, 1913. German.
Catalogue of the exhibition "Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon", curated by Herwarth Walden in Berlin, in 1913. The catalogue includes an introduction by Walden and reproductions of works displayed in the exhibition (among them works by Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and many others).
Herwarth Walden (1879-1941), a Jewish-German artist, art curator, founder of "Der Sturm" periodical and a publishing house as well as an art gallery. Walden, born as Georg Levin, was married to the Jewish-German poet Else Lasker-Schiller, who gave him his new name. Being a communist, he left Germany in the early 1930s because of the threat on the Nazis and moved to the Soviet Union, where he was persecuted for his connection to Avant Garde art and died in a Soviet prison in 1941.
32, [2] pp + [50] reproduction plates (printed on both sides of the leaf), 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tear to last page. Detached signatures. Creases and stains to cover. Tears to spine.