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Allerlei Geister. Gedichte und Erzaehlungen von August Kopisch. Ed by Leo Greiner. Woodcuts by Rolf von Hoerschelmann, 1915, in German. - Allerlei Geister. Gedichte und Erzaehlungen von August Kopisch. Ed. by Leo Greiner. Woodcuts by Rolf von Hoerschelmann, 1915, in German. Allerlei Geister. Gedichte und Erzaehlungen von August Kopisch. Ausgewaehlt von Leo Greiner. Zeichnungen von Rolf von Hoerschelmann. Martin Moerikes Verlag, Muenchen, 1915. 285 pp. Many Holzschnitte in text and frontispiece, signed in the plate. Hard cover, size: 19 x 14.5 cm. Condition: cover worn, stained and rubbed; spine is missing abut binding is tight; some sporadic foxing stains. Weight: 420 gr. Kopisch was born on 26 May 1799 in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland). In 1815 he began studying painting at the Prague academy, but an injury to his hand damaged his prospects of success as an artist, and he turned to literature. After residences in Dresden and Vienna Kopisch proceeded in 1822 to Italy. At Naples he became close friends with the poet August von Platen-Hallermuende; and when out swimming he and the painter Ernst Fries discovered the ”Blue Grotto” of Capri. In 1828 he settled at Berlin and was granted a pension by Frederick William IV of Prussia, who in 1838 conferred upon him the title of professor. In 1847 he moved to Potsdam and wrote an account of royal residences there and in the neighborhood. He died on 6 February 1853 at Berlin. Rolf Erik von Hoerschelmann (28. Februar 1885 in Dorpat, Gouvernement Livland, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 12. März 1947 in Feldafing) war ein deutschbaltischer Illustrator, Sammler, Schriftsteller und Bohemien.