Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens - The Kiss (The Kiss)

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Woodcut Composition dimensions: 27.2 x 21.6 cm; sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/16" (36.8 x 28.1 cm) Publisher: Genossenschaft Pan GmbH, Berlin Printer: Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn, Munich Total edition: 1213 (artist's edition: 38, numbered, on Imperial Japan paper; Deluxe edition: 75, numbered, on copperplate printing paper copper; general edition: 1100 on copper plate printing paper) The copy referred to here is one of the latter. The work is usually acquired separately from the book in which it was originally published. In this case, it is included in its original publication. Iconic work; pinnacle of German modernism (Jugendstil), European modernism and Art Nouveau. Colour woodcut, in 6 colours, on light brown machine-made paper. By Peter Behrens. 19.2 x 15.1 cm (image/printing block), 28 x 19.5 cm (sheet). From: Die Kunst. Monatshefte für freie und angewandte Kunst (Munich: Magazinpresse-Verlag 1900), vol. 2. The smaller of the two known versions of this colour woodcut, published in 1900 as an original graphic supplement to the Munich magazine Die Kunst. The enlarged version was published by Pan in 1898. - The artist's main graphic work and at the same time an incunabulum of Art Nouveau in Germany. Slightly yellowed paper due to its age. Partly imperceptible stains at the top and bottom edges. Good overall impression. Peter Behrens (1868 Hamburg - 1940 Berlin). German painter and graphic artist. Representative of German Art Nouveau. 1886-89 Studies at the art school in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf. In Munich he worked as a painter and book-maker. In 1893 he co-founded the Munich Secession. In 1900 he moved to Darmstadt. In 1903-07 he was director of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf. Since 1907 he was a member of the advisory board of AEG Berlin. Since 1922 he has been a professor and director of the School of Architecture at the Vienna Academy. In 1939 he completed his master's degree in architecture at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. Inscription below: P. BEHRENS, MUNICH / ORIGINAL WOODCUT. Monogram PB on the printing block below. 19.2 x 15.1 cm (image/printing block), 28 x 19.5 cm (sheet) Peter Behrens German architect and designer (Hamburg, April 14, 1868 - Berlin, February 27, 1940). He was the one who coined the phrase "Less is more" wrongly attributed to Mies van der Rohe who was his assistant. Behrens initially trained as an artist in painting and then became a pioneer of objective architecture and industrial design in architecture before the First World War. He is best known as a co-founder of the German Werkbund and for his extensive design work for AEG before the First World War. He is regarded as the prototype ("archetype") of the industrial designer and at the same time the inventor of corporate design, as he designed everything at AEG, from the letterhead to the manufactured products such as electric kettles, to the factory buildings, in a uniform spirit. The architectural firm he headed gained particular importance because several architects who later became famous - among them Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier - had worked there almost simultaneously.