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VER SACRUM

VER SACRUM

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VER SACRUM
two complete bound volumes of Ver Sacrum, published 1898-1899 by Gerlach, Schenk and Seeman, illustrated throughout with lithographs, woodcuts and etchings by leading contributors to the Viennese avant-garde including Kolomon Moser, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Alfred Roller and others. Together with a special edition of Ver Sacrum by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), dated Nov-Dec 1903 and Klimt's bookplate Ex Libris Der Vereinigvng Bildender Kunstler Osterreiche Secession (4)

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Ver Sacrum was the official magazine for the Vienna Secession and documents the start and the rise of this influential movement. This set contains the extra number for year one (Catalogue of the Second Seccessionist Exhibition).

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