2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
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Art Book, 9-1/2" x 13-1/4", published Palestine, Tel-Aviv, Hotza'at Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1945, by artist Erich Erich Glass (bio below). 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 this Palestinian edition appeared later, in 1945. One page of text, the preface in Hebrew by Dov Sadan (1902 - 1989, an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset). This followed by 29 dramatic 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. GLAS started preparing this artistic documentation years before the end of the Holocaust, while WW2 was still battling while Jews were still being exterminated. Glas created this amazing collection of art peices dedicated to the suffering of the Jewish people in Ghettos, Concentration Camps, Labor Camps, and Death Camps. His visions of the horrors of the Holocaust including torture, prison camps, fires, and graphic images of death. Striking, dramtic and RARE. Ari Erich Glas (1897 - 1973) was a German and Israeli painter, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer. Glas was born in 1897 in Berlin, Germany under the name Erich Glas. During the World War I he served as a commando soldier and later as a pilot and an aerial photographer in the Imperial German Army. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and between 1919 and 1920 at the Bauhaus school in Weimar with Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten. He joined "The Young Rheinland", an artistic group which was founded by Ulrich Leman. After 1926 Glas worked as an independent graphic artist in Weimar and Berlin. In addition, he taught painting and graphics. At that time his work was influenced by Max Liebermann. In 1934 he left Germany because of the Nazi regime and started living in Kibbutz Yagur in Israel where he changed his first name to Ari. His son, Gotthard Glas, better known under the adopted name Uziel Gal was the designer of the Uzi submachine gun. Ari Glas died in Haifa in 1973. 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 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.
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