Exceptional signed album leaf bearing the autographs of eight leading Austrian authors, including Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler, Felix Salten, and Felix Braun. no place, no date. 4to. 1 p.
$ 3,998 / 3.500 €
(106470)
Exceptional signed album leaf bearing the autographs of eight leading Austrian authors, including Stefan Zweig, Arthur Schnitzler, Felix Salten, Richard Schaukal, Karl von Strobl, Franz Spunda, and Felix Braun. Each contributor has entered a literary quotation or aphorism beneath a charming pencil portrait of the writer Meyer Überlingen. Stefan Zweig contributed the reflection: „Das Unerreichbare sinnlich nahe zu bringen und das Sinnliche wiederum ins Geistige zu distanzieren, erzeugt jene Spannung im Künstler, die ihn schöpferisch macht“ ("To bring the unattainable sensually close, and in turn to distance the sensual into the realm of the spiritual, creates that tension within the artist which makes him creative.").
Arthur Schnitzler added the aphorism: „Tiefsinn hat nie ein Ding erhellt. Klarsinn scheint tiefer in die Welt“ ("Profundity has never illuminated a thing; clarity of mind sees more deeply into the world."). Felix Salten, the celebrated author of Bambi, wrote: „Wahr sein aus Natur: die Lüge schätzen aus Erkenntnis!“ ("To be truthful by nature; to understand the value of falsehood through knowledge!"). An exceptional literary souvenir uniting several of the foremost representatives of Viennese Modernism and early twentieth-century Austrian literature on a single album leaf..