Die Mutter

Die Mutter is an original Rare Book illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972) and written by Leonhard Frank (Würzburg, 1882 – Munich, 1961) in 1919.

Original Edition.

1000 numbered copies.

Published by Max Racher Verlag, Zurich.

Format: Large 8°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative.

The book includes 45 pages with 9 full page woodcuts.

Good conditions.  

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The book has been illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972). He was a Flemish painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France, known especially for his woodcuts focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and Otto Nückel. 

The book has been written by Leonhard Frank (Würzburg, 1882 – Munich, 1961). He was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel The Robber Band. When a Berlin journalist celebrated in a famous café about news of the loss of the ship RMS Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine, Frank was upset – and slapped the man in his face. That is why he went into exile in Switzerland (1915–18), where he wrote a series of pacifist short-stories published under the title Man is Good. He returned to Germany, but after the Nazis gained power in 1933 Frank had to emigrate a second time. He lived in Switzerland again, moved to London, then Paris and finally fled under adventurous conditions to the United States in 1940, returning to Munich in 1950. His best-known novels were In the Last Coach (1925, tr. 1935) and Carl and Anna, which he dramatized in 1929. In 1947 MGM made a movie titled Desire Me out of this story.