Description
Red morocco leather, front side, backside and spine with gilded
monograms of the architect and publisher, book cut gilded
h. 32,5 cm, w. 26,5 cm, d. 3,0 cm
Extremely rare luxury edition of the monograph „Peter Behrens“
by Fritz Hoeber, bound in red morocco leather. Frontispiece:
lithograph portrait of the architect Peter Behrens by Max Liebermann,
pencil signed: Peter Behrens. Published by Georg Müller and Eugen
Rentsch, Munich, printed by J. Schön, Munich.
Only five examples known, all in private collections
Marks
Pencil signed: Peter Behrens
Provenance
Art market Germany
Public collections
Not known
Literature
Roland Jaeger, „Peter Behrens“ (1913) von Fritz Hoeber
und die Monographienreihe „Moderne Architekten“, in: Aus dem
Antiquariat, Neue Folge 8 (2010) Nr. 3/4, pag. 141 - 148