Exlibris Bookplate Lithography Erich Büttner 1889-1936 Child Wings Beigabe

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Ex musician Gertrud Janzen. Child at the grand piano, behind it a flower tree, therefore flowers ["The singing tree. A child is playing on the piano, flowers. "]
Büttner, Erich (1889-1936):
[1921]. 60 x 58 mm. Lithograph.
Language: German
Order number: 12991
Comments: * Vollmer 1; Gutenberg 1603; Buttner 123. - Signed in the print. Büttner grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg and initially learned the trade of art glass. From 1906 to 1911 he studied painting, graphics and book illustration at the teaching facility of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin under Emil Orlik. In 1908 he became a member of the Berlin Secession and took part in group exhibitions, and in 1913 the Gurlitt Gallery organized the first solo exhibition of his works. Büttner created more than 190 bookplates, initially small and very small format sheets, because he is of the opinion that the own sheets have to fit into a book. Later on, his bookplates also get a little bigger. He is one of the few representatives of Expressionism in bookplates, and his most famous bookplate was commissioned by the second wife of the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein. He died in Freiburg in 1936. - Small remnants of assembly on the back. Enclosed is the bookplate for Willi Altmann (terrace of joy and sorrow. [1918]. 64 x 58 mm. Lithograph. *See. Gutenberg 18,029; Buttner 74. - Signed in the print. - Good copy.)
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Comments: * Vollmer 1; Gutenberg 1603; Buttner 123. - Signed in the print. Büttner grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg and initially learned the trade of art glass. From 1906 to 1911 he studied painting, graphics and book illustration at the teaching facility of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin under Emil Orlik. In 1908 he became a member of the Berlin Secession and took part in group exhibitions, and in 1913 the Gurlitt Gallery organized the first solo exhibition of his works. Büttner created more than 190 bookplates, initially small and very small format sheets, because he is of the opinion that the own sheets have to fit into a book. Later on, his bookplates also get a little bigger. He is one of the few representatives of Expressionism in bookplates, and his most famous bookplate was commissio