Twenty-four German expressionist woodcuts from the New World

Thalmann, Max. Vom Rhythmus der Neuen Welt –Amerika im Holzschnitt. Jena, Germany: Eugen Diederichs, 1927. 4to.; 24 woodcuts; age-toned; white cloth stamped in black, bumped. In original ecru dust jacket stamped in black. First edition, the full edition. Bookplate on colophon inscribed by Frank A. Thalmann [Max’s brother]: “donated to the Pasadena art museum by Frank A. Thalmann / Brother of Max Thalmann / Seal Beach Leisure World Feb. 1967 / Max died in Weimar 1945”.  The German illustrator Max Thalmann (1890–1945) was a figurative artist who produced black and white woodblock prints for a short period of time between the two World Wars. For the rest of his life, he mostly worked as a graphic designer and a bookbinder, having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde at Weimar. His artistic production consists mainly of three bodies of work: The Passion, Der Dom (The Cathedral), and Rhythmus der Neuen Welt – Amerika im Holzschnitt (Rhythm of the New World – America in Woodcuts), e