Axel Salto — Tryk selv dine Billeder

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“Axel Salto was born in Copenhagen in 1889 and is known today as one of the finest masters of 20th century ceramic art. After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and commencing an initial career in painting, the artist soon became intrigued by modernism and a progressive aesthetic. He visited Paris, mingled with Picasso and Matisse, and went on to publish the journal Klingen (The Blade), which became a forum for the modernist movement in Denmark between 1917 and 1920.” He made around a dozen of illustrated often very limited artists books or illustrated books of which this book is one of the most charming

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Tryk selv dine Billeder. Stempler og Tekst af Axel Salto. (Print Your Own Pictures). Copenhagen, 1943. Folio in original printed illustrated wraps. (24) pp. Illustrated with lithographs, some in colour, throughout. Some edgewear but solid and clean

Danish War time art book object. Well preserved copy. First edition

Axel Salto — Tryk selv dine Billeder