Album Kafka - Ses Oevres illustres by Fronius. (1947, Kafka Portfolio)

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Paris and Vienna, Editions de la Toison D'or, Amandus Edition, 1947, Loose plates in Hardcover portfolio

1st edition, Very Good

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full title: Album Kafka - Ses oeuvres illustrees by Fronius. (Album Kafka - Drawings based on his works by Fronius, with a parable by Franz Kafka and a foreword by Otto Mauer.)

Paris Editions de la Toison d'or and Vienna, Amandus Edition, 1947. 16 x 12.25 inches, 10 pages text in French. 10 plates in photo-lithography, based on chalk lithographs by Hans Fronius, who devoted his life to Franz Kafka and his work.. With a woodcut portrait of Franz Kafka on the title page, a foreword by Otto Mauer, and the text “Before the Law” by Franz Kafka. 

Portfolio front and back boards separated, plates very good. (see photos)

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"As he himself explained, it was a „touch of identities“, „an affinity given by the mental disposition“, that connected the graphic artist, painter and illustrator Hans Fronius (1903 – 1988), who came from a Transylvanian (Siebenbürgen) family, with Franz Kafka throughout his life. As early as 1937, Fronius traveled to Prague, where he was able to exhibit his first Kafka illustrations in the Art Association and met Kafka's friends Max Brod and Johannes Urzidil. After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, Fronius was attacked as a „friend of Jews“.

The spiritual connection to the already deceased writer remained and was expressed in numerous other graphics based on Kafka's works in the post-war period. These can be discovered in the exhibition of the Transylvanian (Siebenbürgen) Museum Gundelsheim.