A bis Z : Organ of the Group of Progressive Artists, Germany; 1929–33 [Limited Reprint]

A bis Z (A to Z) — Organ of the Group of Progressive Artists, edited by Heinrich Hoerle, et al., Cologne, Germany, 1969. This bound reprint includes No. 1, October 1929 to No. 30, February 1933. Verlag Gebr. König, Cologne; New York, Consult-Publishing, Munich, Germany. 8.25”w x 12”h, pp. 120 plus Index, German text only. Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies.

The Cologne Progressives was a circle of politically and socially engaged artists (Frans Seiwert, Heinrich Hoerle and Gerd Arntz) based in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany following WWI. A bis Z was their radical art journal published from 1929-1933. 

Uncommon and excellent avant-garde reprint from 1969. Heavily illustrated throughout with over (200) black and white illustrations and photographs on newsprint paper. Featuring a single-sided laid-in sheet (August 1930, No. 10) with a reproduction of a black drawing (woodcut or linocut) by Otto Freundlich, the German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, who was murdered in 1943 at the Majdanek concentration camp.

Individual works and texts by but not limited to: Josef Albers, Peter Alma, Gert Arntz, Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister, Raoul Hausmann, Brancusi, Theo van Doesburg, Otto Freundlich, Heinrich Hoerle, Gino Severini, Stanislav Kubicki, Amadeo Modigliani, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Jan Tschichold, August Sander, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, August Tschinkel and more. With an afterword printed double-sided on a loose sheet (laid-in) by Hans Schmitt-Rost and an Index of text, illustrations and notes towards the back.

A good black linen hardcover with some scuffing and wear to the covers and top of the spine. Interior pages unmarked. Uncommon in the United States.