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Kurt Schwitters – "Anna Blume" –Two Editions, including the First Printing – Dada Poetry – Covers Designed by ...
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Kurt Schwitters – "Anna Blume" –Two Editions, including the First Printing – Dada Poetry – Covers Designed by Schwitters Himself
1. Anna Blume Dichtungen [The Poetry of Anna Blume], by Kurt Schwitters. Hanover: Paul Steegmann, 1919. German. "Erstes bis fünftes Tausend" [First Edition, First Printing].
First printing of "Anna Blume," the poetic work by the Dadaist and Futurist German painter and sculptor, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). His love poem, "Anna Blume" (or "Anna Bluma" in its translation into Hebrew by Shimon Sandbank), was first published in the German periodical "Der Sturm" in August 1919. The very same year, it was republished in two separate and independent editions.
With an introductory poem ("Der Künstler, ein einleitendes Gedicht"), by Christof Spengemann. Cover design by Kurt Schwitters.
37, [3] pp., 21.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
2. Die Blume anna, die neue Anna Blume, Eine Gedichtsammlung aus den Jahren 1918-1922. Einbecker Politurausgabe by Kurt Merz Schwitters. Berlin: Der Sturm, [1922/23]. German.
Selected Dadaist, concrete and sound poems. Cover design by Kurt Schwitters.
32 pp., 22.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains, pp. 19-30 detached. Bookplate to inside front cover.
Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.
