Berlin, Nineteen Ten to Nineteen Thirty-Three
Description:
Small 4to. 284 pp, preface, introduction, I. City Architecture and Habitat by Janos Frecot and Sonja Gunther; II. Painting by Eberhard Roters; III. Sculpture by Joachim Heysinger von Waldegg; IV. Film in Berlin by Ulrich Gregor; V. Theater by Arno Paul; notes, guide to the persons mentioned in the book, photo credits, index with color and b&w illustrations throughout. Translated from the German by Marguerite Mounier: First English Edition, 1982. Black leatherette with white lettering to spine."Big-city art for the inhabitants of big cities was primarily the creation of the artists and intellectuals of Berlin in the two decades from 1910-1933. Berlin witnessed and explosion of creative, individualistic experimentation that enthralled the art world of its time and is the subject of this exciting overview of an extraordinary place and period, influences of that new art that are still at wok today."