PAN Jugendstil - Magazine - Issue IV 1898 (April 1899)

Lot 1047 limit € 150

complete edition with all art supplements, published by Fontane & Co. in Berlin, here: "General Edition on Copperplate One Thousand One Hundred Copies", title page designed by Franz von Stuck, 4 orig. Graphics: Albert Baertson "Le vieux pont" (original etching), Meyer-Basel "Strohhütte in Oberbayern" (original etching), Krüger "Böcklin's self-portrait with death" (original woodcut with two colors), Florentine early baroque -Frame drawn by Peter Hahn (line etching), 5 collotypes: by Hoffmann "Frühlingssturm" and "Spiegel", Halm "Judith", Venetian frame around 1490, Florentine tabernacle, containing seals by Rilke, Caesar Flaischlen etc., essays by Bode , Meier-Gräfe etc., signs of age and wear (cover damaged, tears at top and bottom, slightly soiled, binding loosened, but a nice, collectible copy of this rare, exclusive Art Nouveau edition, PAN magazine was first published in Berlin between 1895 and 1899. It is considered the most important organ of Art Nouveau in Germany. The magazine was published in an exclusive edition of around 1100 - 1600 copies. It was the most expensive and most exclusive German art magazine around 1900.