Beschreibung:

24 : 17 cm. 36 pages with 46 partly full-page illustrations by Christian Schad. Coloured illustrated original boards.

Bemerkung:

Extensive catalogue of the work of Christian Schad. With detailed autobiographical notes, a small critical anthology, writings or illustrations by Schad and a bibliography. Abundant illustrated. - Christian Schad (1894-1982) was a German painter associated with dada and the New Objective movement. As a pacifist he escaped service in WWI by moving to Switzerland, where he lived in Zurich and Geneva, both centeres of the Dada Movement. He was present at the founding of the famous Cabaret Voltaire, and became a close frined of writer and dadaist Walter Serner. After 1918 he develoüed his own version of Photogram (later named 'Schadographs' by Tristan Tzara).