Alfred Kunze - portfolio of honor

Lot 2013 limit € 600

Unique, birthday folder with 12 original graphics, watercolors and drawings by his artist friends, inscribed in ink on the title page: Our dear Alfred Kunze on his 70th birthday / monogrammed in lead by his colleagues underneath by Heinrich Brenner, with works by: Rose Friedrich , watercolored woodcut, Quartres St. Marcel, dated 1912; Heinrich Brenner, offset print, titled Cornelia, dated 1934 and signed in the print; Emil Mund, red chalk drawing, Alfred Kunze portrait; Martha Schrag, watercolor drawing in charcoal and lead, titled climatic health resort in the Giant Mountains; Carl Lange, drawing in charcoal, portrait; Rudolf Pleissner, watercolour, ink drawing, caricature; Ernst Olbrich, watercolor, portrait; Bernhard Paul Mehnert, watercolor, bouquet of roses; M. Gruner, sanguine drawing on lead, hand study with saying; Max Krause-Kiederling, charcoal drawing, landscape, dated 1932 in the image; Georg Gelbke, watercolour, titled Mosel bei Graach on the reverse, all sheets signed or monogrammed by hand except for Brenner, mostly dated 1936 and 9 x with handwritten dedication for Alfred Kunze by the respective artist, original condition: sheets behind a simple passe-partout in the original half-linen folder , cover and spine extensively covered with handmade paper, signs of age (among other things, sheets partly browned or slightly light-stained, partly slightly creased, occasionally min. damaged), sheet up to approx. 41 x 31 cm, folder approx. 54 x 40 cm, good Preserved, unique collector's item directly from the artist's estate