ORIGINAL 1923 RARE NAZI BURNED TITLE HISTORY OF EROTIC ART by EDUARD FUCHS

Geschichte Der Erotischen Kunst by Eduard Fuchs

 History of Erotic Art

Das individuelle problem mit 350 abbildungen und 51 beilagen.  

The individual problem with 350 illustrations and 51 supplements.

 Volume one only.  This is a very rare title.  We have been unable to identify another copy offered for sale.

Eduard Fuchs (1870 - 1940) was a writer and art collector.  He combined his research, writing and art collecting to produce a six-volume work, Sittengeschichte, Moral History and three volume Die Frau in der Karikatur, The Woman in the Cartoon.  Fuchs was a prolific collector of the artist Honore-Victorin Daumier (1808 - 1879), a French caricaturist, cartoonist, lithographer, painter and sculptor and produced three volumes of his works.

In addition to the vast Daumier collection, Fuchs also owned a significant number of works by Max Slevogt.

Fuchs was financially successful through the publication of his works, whose popularity was due in part because of their content of erotic art.

Fuchs and his Jewish second wife, Margarete, fled from Germany to Paris in February 1933 after coming under attack from the Nazi party.  They were able to take only a few art works with them.  Later that year, Fuchs' collection, which had remained in Germany, was seized by the Nazis. 

The Nazis banned and burned Fuchs' books.

Part of the art collection was returned to Fuchs', who remained in exile in Paris, but his daughter (from his first marriage) was forced to auction off the collection between 1937-1938.  There have been multiple projects to identify and recover the Fuchs' Collection.  Only a small number of pieces have been recovered.

This volume is a 4to size  brown clothbound hardcover with brown titles on cover and spine.  439 toned pages.  Profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations and a few color illustrations throughout. Many full page illustrations.  Many very explicit erotic illustrations.

Text is in German.

This fragile book is shaken with loose stitches starting at the top and extending about three inches down and getting progressively tighter as they get to the bottom.  Half inch tears to top of and bottom of sunned spine; worn corners, large tears along left side of spine.  Some full page illustrations have a blank tanned reverso and the pages following the tanned reversos are also tanned.  Bookseller's penciled notation and creases to corner on fep; tiny spot on inside front cover with transfer to fep; we note at least two pages with finger marks in the margin and several pages with quarter inch to half inch tears in the margins and a stain in the top margin of page 7.  Two pages in the preface - the last two pages before page one - are attached to each other but detached from the book and laid in.  An attached ribbon bookmark is discolored towards the bottom.

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publication date=1923

binding=cloth

subject=""erotic art

political history=""author's art collection looted by nazis.

literary history=""author banned by nazis, his books burned.

illustrated=""black and white and color