3 volumes, History, 1911, German | Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, vom Mittenalter bis zur Gegenwart. München, Albert Langen, 3 vols.

Fuchs, E.

3 volumes, History, 1911, erotic, German | Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, vom Mittenalter bis zur Gegenwart. München, Albert Langen, 3 vols.

Name: 3 volumes, History, 1911, erotic, German | Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, vom Mittenalter bis zur Gegenwart. München, Albert Langen, 3 vols.
SKU: 67836
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3 volumes (of 6): Renaissance, Die galante Zeit, Das bürgerliche Zeitalter. On morality and erotic imagery.

Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940) was a German scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist. In 1892, he became editor-in-chief of the satirical Süddeutscher Postillon and later co-editor of the Leipziger Volkszeitung. His inflammatory articles in newspapers—one even accusing the Kaiser of being a mass murderer—resulted in periodic jail sentences. During his periods of confinement, Fuchs wrote various social histories utilizing images as one of his primary sources. The first of these was his Karikatur der europäischen Völker (1902), followed by works such as Die Frau in der Karikatur (1905) and a book on stereotypical representations of Jews in 1912. Around the same ime, he began his ‘Sittengeschichte’, a work on moral practice.
Fuchs’s interest in societal concerns in caricature led to a research interest in Daumier. Beginning in 1920, Fuchs published a catalogue raisonné on the artist in three volumes. By 1909, Fuchs owned 3,800 lithographs by Daumier in 1909 and By the end of the 1920s, he owned 6,000 prints, 21 paintings and 16 drawings by him. Fuchs also had in his collection 44 paintings and at least 10 watercolors by Max Slevogt, many acquired directly from the artist who was also his friend. Fuchs’ collection included 19 paintings by Max Liebermann as well as majolica and porcelain and East Asian objects. Fuchs possessed the largest collection (120) of Chinese rooflights at that time. For his research he also had over twenty thousand drawings, prints, pamphlets and posters of moral histories.

He placed his collection in the “Villa Fuchs” which had been built by Mies van der Rohe in 1901 in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

At Hitler’s ascension to power in Germany in 1933, Fuchs was, according to the New York Times, “violently attacked by the Nazi regime and because his second wife, the former Grete Alsberg, was a Jewess, had to flee Germany.” Fuchs and his wife escaped Nazi Germany in February 1933 via Schaffhausen, Strasbourg and Geneva to Paris. On 25 October 1933 the Fuchs Collection was officially confiscated, the rooms sealed, and books, posters, and pamphlets taken away. On 26 October 1933 the furniture and the remaining art objects were seized the Zehlendorf tax office. Fuchs’ books were banned, confiscated and partially burned. From February 2018 to February 2020 and May 2020 to April 2022, research projects were launched to try to reconstruct the history of the Fuchs collection which had been looted by the Nazis.

Cultural history – German – art collecting – marxism – history – manners and morality – life and customs

SKU: 67836

Bound in linen, 27.6 x 20.1 cm. Signs of wear: some stains, browned paper, some foxing. Somewhat damaged spines. Spine of part 2 broken.

€ 109,00 (€ 100,00 ex. btw)

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