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The True Germanic Face - Flandern

Flemish Saying: "t'Geluk van een waar Vlaming t'is vrijheid in zijn huis en landje."

Depicted are people and landscape from:
Damme, Kempenland, province Limburg, Flemish war volunteer, Docker from Antwerp,
Lowen, Mecheln, Lier, Leie, Oost Vlaanderen, Schelde, Waasland, Brugge, Boom, Knocke,
Westhoek, Calais, Boulogne, Boonen ...

About the author: [ Erna Lendvai-Dircksen was born in 1883. She first studied painting, and in 1910 took up photography.
In 1911 she began her magnum opus, a photographic study of the peasants of all the German regions,
which she continued until the Second World War.
In 1933 she receives acclaim as the photographer of "the True Face of Germany" ,
as opposed to the work of August Sander. In 1943 her archives are destroyed in an air raid.
This volume is part of her extended document of the German peoples.]

Hardcover

  • 76 pages
  • 70 awesome full page photo reproductions in black and white 

In very good exterior and near fine interior condition.
With the rare Original Dust Jacket included, which is chipped and edgeworn. Else ok with minor traces of use and age.

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.

Approx/Measurements: 10-1/4" x 7-1/2" ~1 lbs.

by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
Published by Gauv. Bayreuth
 





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