George (Stefan). Maximin, Ein Gedenkbuch herausgegeben von Stefan George, Berlin: Blaetter fur die Kunst, 1907, book design by Melchior Lechter with portrait frontispiece of Maximin (Maximilien Kronberger) after a photograph by Stefan George, decorative title-page printed in red and black, text printed in red and black, with elaborate decorative border deisgns by Lechter, all edges gilt, original full vellum decorated in gilt designed by Melchior Lechter some minor handling marks and light soiling (generally a very good copy), folio (34.5 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Horst Kretschmann Winckelmann, with his circular printed bookplate to recto of limitation leaf before title. 2) Eduard Rosenbaum (1887-1979), Anglo-German economist and librarian. Landmann 209; Raub A 63. Number 164 of 200 copies. A lavish poetic tribute to the young Munich student, gymnast and budding poet Maximilian Kronberger (1888-1904), who died of meningitis a day after his sixteenth birthday. Kronberger joined the literary circle around Stefan George in 1902, and developed an intense homoerotic friendship with George, who idolised the youth and beauty of the young man. Following his death, George immortalised Maximin in this collection of poems by Kronberger himself, Stefan George, Friedrich Gundolf, Karl Wolfskehl, Lothar Treuge and Oskar Dietrich, and the ensuing myth of the doomed young poet became a central theme of the George Kreis or Circle.
George (Stefan). Maximin, Ein Gedenkbuch herausgegeben von Stefan George, Berlin: Blaetter fur die Kunst, 1907, book design by Melchior Lechter with portrait frontispiece of Maximin (Maximilien Kronberger) after a photograph by Stefan George, decorative title-page printed in red and black, text printed in red and black, with elaborate decorative border deisgns by Lechter, all edges gilt, original full vellum decorated in gilt designed by Melchior Lechter some minor handling marks and light soiling (generally a very good copy), folio (34.5 x 26.5 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: 1) Horst Kretschmann Winckelmann, with his circular printed bookplate to recto of limitation leaf before title. 2) Eduard Rosenbaum (1887-1979), Anglo-German economist and librarian. Landmann 209; Raub A 63. Number 164 of 200 copies. A lavish poetic tribute to the young Munich student, gymnast and budding poet Maximilian Kronberger (1888-1904), who died of meningitis a day after his sixteenth birthday. Kronberger joined the literary circle around Stefan George in 1902, and developed an intense homoerotic friendship with George, who idolised the youth and beauty of the young man. Following his death, George immortalised Maximin in this collection of poems by Kronberger himself, Stefan George, Friedrich Gundolf, Karl Wolfskehl, Lothar Treuge and Oskar Dietrich, and the ensuing myth of the doomed young poet became a central theme of the George Kreis or Circle.
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