Siniestro turismo de guerra del ’38

Viajeros de la Ruta de Guerra n° 1 en recorrido por Cantabria y Asturias [Material gráfico] (ca. 1938) | Travelers of the War Route No. 1 on a tour in Cantabria and Asturias [Graphic material] | src europeana (original src Biblioteca Digital Hispánica)

Viajeros de la Ruta de Guerra n° 1 en recorrido por Cantabria y Asturias [Material gráfico]. Sólo algunas de las fotografías tienen, al verso, mecanografiado el nombre del fotógrafo (Marqués de Santa María del Villar), se deduce por la apariencia que el resto pueden ser del mismo fotógrafo. (ca. 1938). Las rutas de guerra eran itinerarios turísticos oficiales (creados en el verano de 1938 en plena Guerra Civil) dirigidos al público extranjero por la España denominada ‘liberada’. El bando nacional creó rutas turísticas de guerra para traer a visitantes extranjeros a las regiones que habían caído bajo su control con un doble propósito: propagandístico y económico (conseguir divisas).

Travelers of the War Route No. 1 on a tour in Cantabria and Asturias [Graphic material]. Only some of the photographs have, on the verso, the photographer’s name typed (Marqués de Santa María del Villar), it can be deduced from their appearance that the rest may be by the same photographer (ca. 1938). The war routes were official tourist itineraries (created in the summer of 1938 in the midst of the Civil War) aimed at the foreign public to visit the so-called ‘liberated’ Spain. The national side created tourist war routes to bring foreign visitors to the regions that had fallen under their control with a dual purpose: propagandist and economic (earning foreign exchange). [quoted from source]

Die Blätter mit dem Tod, 1918

Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title "A Dance of Death". | src Bassenge Auktionen
Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title “A Dance of Death”. | src Bassenge Auktionen
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin's sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist's own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the "Dance of Death" appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin’s sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist’s own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the “Dance of Death” appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Ein Totentanz, 1922

Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen
Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen
Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. | Dance of Death. 22 plates after silhouettes by Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen
Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. | Dance of Death. 22 plates after silhouettes by Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen
Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen
Walter Draesner :: Ein Totentanz. 22 Tafeln nach Scherenschnitten von Walter Draesner. | Dance of Death. 22 plates after silhouettes by Walter Draesner. Berlin und Leipzig, Behrs Verlag Friedrich Feddersen (1922). | src Bassenge Auktionen