Lot 280
"Wegen" – Anthology of Poetry and Prose – Lodz, 1922 – Illustration by Joseph Hecht
"Wegen, Heft A" [Roads, Booklet A], anthology of poetry and prose edited by M. Szwarc. Lodz, 1922. Yiddish.
An anthology of poetry and prose featuring works by Moishe Broderzon, Oser Warszawski, Chaim Leib Fox (Fuks), David Koenigsberg, Hayim Krol, Yitskhok Berliner, Sarah Baum, and others. A reproduction of the painting "Adam and Eve" by Joseph Hecht is printed on the front cover.
The artist Joseph Hecht (1891-?) was born in Lodz, studied at the Art Academy in Krakow in the years 1909-1914, and then travelled to Norway, where he worked and exhibited his art until 1919. In 1920, he moved to Paris, where he dealt mostly in engraving. Here he took part in the establishment of the organization "La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine" (Young Contemporary Engraving Artists). It is unclear whether he perished in an extermination camp, or died in Paris in 1951.
32 columns (two columns per page), approx. 35 cm. Fair condition. Detached leaves. Minor creases. Closed and open tears to edges (large open tears to back cover). Foxing (mostly to cover). The two parts of the cover are detached from one another and from the booklet.
Not in OCLC.
