Fritz Wotruba

Artist: Fritz Wotruba 
Author: Jean-Rudolph de Salis 
Publisher: Editions Graphis Zurich 
Date: 1948 
Condition: The first edition, with the original printed dust cover over card boards, protected by the original onionskin opaque jacket which has preserved the covers in largely clean condition; internally a little tanning to the edges and some light foxing throughout consistent with post-war paper stock, illustrated in black and white throughout. Text in German, French and English 

This useful and well-illustrated monograph on the work of Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba offers a good introduction to anyone wanting to know more about his work. With an interesting essay, some reproductions of drawings and photography of the works and the artist and his studio by Christian Staub, it demonstrates an admirable level of enterprise in the immediate post-war period when art publishing was still working to regain a market.