An exceptionally attractive autograph album assembled by the collector Helmut Bausenwein, incl. Pablo Picasso, Carl Orff, Erich Kästner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Günter Grass, Max Frisch, Heinrich Böll, and Otto Hahn. versch. Ort. 8vo.
$ 11,094 / 9.900 €
(106674)
An exceptionally attractive autograph album assembled by the collector Helmut Bausenwein, who gathered the distinguished contributions mainly during the second half of the 1960s. Contributors include Pablo Picasso, Carl Orff, Erich Kästner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Günter Grass, Max Frisch, Heinrich Böll, Otto Hahn, Gertrud Freiin von le Fort, Ina Seidel, Ernst Jünger, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Eugen Roth, Oskar Kokoschka, Peter Weiss, as well as a later entry by Peter Härtling. Günter Grass refers to his play Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand; Joseph Keilberth contributes a musical quotation; Erich Kästner inscribes his well-known saying, “Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer: Man tut es.”; Heinrich Böll contributes four autograph lines; Carl Orff adds a musical quotation from Carmina Burana; Pablo Picasso signs across an entire page and dates his entry “le 23.5.66”; Max Frisch contributes an eight-line dedication; Friedrich Dürrenmatt writes “auch nicht verschlammt [!]”; Eugen Roth contributes “Ein Mensch”; and Peter Härtling adds a small drawing of a flower. An unusually appealing collection bringing together major writers, artists, musicians and public figures in a single contemporary album..