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Comprehensive collection of the personal letters & other writings of Feininger (1871-1956), early modernist painter who escaped Nazi persecution in his native Germany, where he was a teacher at the Bauhaus & a leading representative of the avant-garde movement in art, to live the rest of his life in the U.S. Also contains writings about the artist, a chronology, bibliography, list of major exhibitions, & 52 illustrations, including 8 full-color plates. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing hardcover in original DJ.