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Componisten Het Gelaat een reeks mappen Portretten
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First edition (assumed). A rare portfolio of portraits of composers by Menachem Birnbaum. Published by Uitgave Tiraha of Den Haag. A large green soft cover portfolio with a title label (including a small portrait of Beethoven) tipped onto the front cover. The covers are faded and marked to the edges, and with a little splitting to the spine, but still holding well. Inside are six sheets of stiff paper / light card (each a little darkened). The first has a title sheet in Dutch tipped onto the sheet. The other five have portraits of famous composers. These are Verdi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. Each is signed in the plate by Birnbaum. The images are 24cm x 18cm. Sheets are 36.5cm x 27cm. Menachem Birnbaum (1893probably 1944/45) was an Austrian Jewish book illustrator and portrait painter. After the rise of the Nazis, Birnbaum emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933. In the spring of 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo along with his family and deported on March 10, 1943, to a Nazi concentration campmost likely Auschwitz. Birnbaum was last seen alive in Auschwitz in October 1944 by a Dutch Jewish survivor. We can find no record of this work anywhere, whether in worldcat, auction records or connected to Birnbaum's work. We have assumed the dating, as Uitgave Tiraha published a book of notable Jewish personalities illustrated by Birnbaum in 1937. We assume this is from a similar time. According to the fly leaf, there were plans for at least five further works in the series. We cannot find any of them and suspect that the Second World War intervened! .
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