Lot description
GERMAINE KRULL (1897–1985) | ‘Der Akt – Zwanzig photographische Aufnahmen weiblicher Körper nach der Natur’ (The Nude Study – Twenty photographs of the female body taken after nature), Einhorn-Verlag, Dachau 1918 | Rare complete portfolio, 30,3 x 40,4 cm, 20 black and white photogravures, each 16,3 x 24,5 cm, printed on Japanese paper and mounted on cardboard, very good condition Photographs by Germaine Krull (7 prints), Wanda v. Debschitz-Kunowski (9 prints), and Jozsef Pèsci (4 prints); the portfolio is housed in a cardboard flap case, the present copy could be an artist proof created for testing purposes of the leather-bound edition which is limited to 50 copies only.