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Berlin: Deutscher Werkbund, 1930–1932. A4 sized. Years 5–7. Complete in 48 issues of roughly 32 pages each. Bound in 3 volumes (1 modern cloth boards and 2 contemporary cloth boards). 12 original covers added at the end of year 6. In German. Very good. Year 5: spine with wear and slight foxing, stamp of Architect Wilhelm Wucherpfenning (1894–1970). Year 7: minor damage to cloth at spine.

Die Form was published in Berlin between 1925 and 1935, with the run never surpassing 5,000 copies. This magazine of creative formal expression and design covers all areas of industrial and artistic creation: architecture and urban development, ranging from design and crafts through film and photography to typography. Contributors include Otto Neurath, Wilhelm Lotz, Ernst Kallai, Marcel Breuer, L.W. Rochowanski, Johannes Itten, H. de Fries, Moholy-Nagy, Soma Morgenstern, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Frank, Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Behne, Otto Bartning, Richard J. Neutra and many others. The German Bauhaus movement is well represented in this extensive collection. A cornucopia of German
design theory from the early 1930s.

Surprisingly scarce at North American institutions.

Price: $1,950

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