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Holocaust. Erich (Ari) Glass, German Jewish Bauhaus artist ”Leilot” (Nights) 28 Linocuts, 1945, Palestine, Very rare! - Holocaust Erich (Ari) Glass, German Jewish Bauhaus artist Leilot (Nights) 29 Linocuts, complete, 1945, Palestine, Very rare! Palestine, Tel-Aviv, Hotza'at Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1945, 28 Linocuts and linocut second title page. One page of text - preface in Hebrew by by Dov Sadan Soft cover, 33.5 x 24.5 cm. (13.1 x 9.6 inches) Condition: wear, small tears and foxing stains to cover; tears to spine; internally good condition. Weight: 200 gr. One page of text in Hebrew preceding 29 Linocuts presented without captions, depicting the artist's imagined visions of the horrors of the Holocaust including torture, prison camps, fires, and graphic images of death. Ari Glass (born Erich Glas) was a German and Israeli painter, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer. His first exposure to the horrors of war was during World War I, when he served as a soldier, pilot, and aerial photographer. After the war, Glass studied at the Bauhaus under Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten, and later joined the Das Junge Rheinland group. He was close to Max Liebermann, and worked under his supervision for a few years. He worked as an independent graphic designer and a press photographer before leaving Germany in 1934 due to the rise of the Nazis. He moved to Kibbutz Yagur and changed his name to Ari. This series of linocuts was created in 1942, the images allegedly coming to Glass during a high, hallucinatory fever. As they were published while the war was still going on, the reality of what was actually occurring in the prison camps was mostly rumors. Glass sought publication of the images but the Palestinian publishing house initially refused, not wanting to spread fear and panic. He was able to get the portfolio published in a limited edition in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1943, and the Palestinian edition appeared later, in 1945. Dov Sadan (Hebrew: דב סדן, 21 February 1902 – 14 October 1989) was an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1965 and 1968.