Bidspirit auction | Stefan Zweig. Der Zwang. Eine

Stefan Zweig. Der Zwang. Eine Novelle und Phantastische Nacht, Woodcuts by Frans Masereel and Otto R. Schatz, 1929, in German - Stefan Zweig. Der Zwang. Eine Novelle und Phantastische Nacht, Woodcuts by Frans Masereel and Otto R. Schatz, 1929, in German Wien, Strom-Verlag, 1929., 126(2) pp., Il,l mit 10 Original Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel und 5 Holzschnitten von Otto R. Schatz. ferner enthalten: Über Stefan Zweig. O.M. Fontana, Antlitz der Front. Aus der Reihe: Die Roman - Rundschau, Nr. 2, Size: 23 x 17 cm. Condition: front soft cover is missing, rear cover detached and chipped to edges; light brown fragile paper; minor foxing stains. Weight: 190 gr. Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. Born into a Jewish family, Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He wrote historical studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and decisive historical events in Decisive Moments in History (1927). He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932), among others. Zweig's best-known fiction includes Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922), Amok (1922), Fear (1925), Confusion of Feelings (1927), Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927), the psychological novel Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity, 1939), and The Royal Game (1941). Frans Masereel (31 July 1889 – 3 January 1972) was a Belgian painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts which focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and Otto Nückel. Otto Rudolf Schatz (1900 in Wien - 1961 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Maler und Grafiker.