Item #58826 Písmo Na Zemi: Dle Staré Povesti Od Selmy Lagerlöfové [The Writing on the Ground]. Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, Selma Lagerlöf.
Písmo Na Zemi: Dle Staré Povesti Od Selmy Lagerlöfové [The Writing on the Ground]
Písmo Na Zemi: Dle Staré Povesti Od Selmy Lagerlöfové [The Writing on the Ground]
Písmo Na Zemi: Dle Staré Povesti Od Selmy Lagerlöfové [The Writing on the Ground]

Písmo Na Zemi: Dle Staré Povesti Od Selmy Lagerlöfové [The Writing on the Ground]

V Praze: 1934. First edition, limited. 13pp. Very slim octavo [23 cm] Publisher's printed wrappers. With light foxing to the front wrapper, and 2 shallow tears to the top edge of the front wrapper. Number 10. With 3 woodcut illustrations designed by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova.

Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova's illustrations for Lagerlöf's biblical short story, the last book published in her lifetime, as a donation for Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Lagerlöf was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. Very good. Item #58826

Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova (1894-1980) was the first female wordless novelist and the only woman to work in this medium during its heyday. She was born in the Moravian region of what is now the Czech Republic and spent most of her life in Brno, the Moravian capital. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in 1923 received a government scholarship to study printmaking in Paris. Bochorakova-Dittrichova's unpublished wordless novel Malirka Na Cestach [The Artist on Her Journey] recounts this period in her life. In Paris, she first encountered the wordless novels of Flemish artist Frans Masereel, the originator of the form, and was inspired to create her own. Over the course of her long career, Bochorakova-Dittrichova published several wordless novels, along with travelogues and historical works. She also worked as a printmaker and illustrator, and was highly regarded in her native land, though largely unknown elsewhere. This changed in 2014, when the National Museum of Women in the Arts held an exhibition of her work entitled "The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova," and this important artist finally began to gain global recognition. Her work, however, is still not widely available.

Price: $1,250.00