Chinesische Landschaftsmalerei (Chinese Landscape Painting)

Fischer, Otto. Chinesische Landschaftsmalerei (Chinese Landscape Painting). München: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1923. Second edition (4.-6.Thousand). Quarto. 177 [1]pp., [1] 51 plates. Original yellow cloth with brown vignette on cover, brown lettering on spine, in original light brown dustjacket with brown lettering on spine. Triple-framed title page with vignette printed in red and black. Historiated head pieces.

Treatise on the development of Chinese landscape painting. With sections covering the time from the beginning through T’ang-, Sung-, and Yüan- and Ming dynasties, a section on form, treating motives like tree and rock, mountain and water, etc., and its meaning, elaborating on the combination of script and picture, inspiration and meaning of landscape in Chinese landscape painting. Illustrated with landscape head pieces, rendered lithographically, and fifty-one plates with b/w offset reproductions of Chinese landscapes printed to glossy paper at rear. Contains notes, time table and register of reproductions at rear of text part. Text in German. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, light chipping. Cloth binding lightly rubbed. Very good condition. Hardcover. (55143) $75