Bidspirit auction | Maurice Maeterlinck, Der Blaue Vogel.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Der Blaue Vogel. (The Blue Bird), 12 hand-colored illustr. by E. von Medem, 1920, in German - Maurice Maeterlinck, Der Blaue Vogel. (The Blue Bird), 12 hand-colored illustr. by E. von Medem, 1920, in German Berlin: Erich Reiss. ca. 1920.. 109 pp. 12 hand-colored illustrations by E. von Medem. German translation is by Stephan Epstein. Scarce. Colophon reads: 'Die achte bis zehnte Auflage von Maeterlincks Marchenspiel 'Der blaue Vogel' wurde im Sommer 1920 in der Spamerschen Buchdruckerei zu Leipzig, in dieser von E. v. Medem mit zwolf handkolorierten Bildern versehenen Ausgabe gedruckt. Hard cover, size: 23 x 15.5 cm. Condition: rubbing to edges and corners of cover; spine damaged – stained, torn to hinges; foxing stains to endpapers and many pages, minor foxing to plates; several plates clean Weight: 310 gr. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[1][a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932,[6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 ”in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations”. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group, [7] and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism.