[Ehmke, Susanne] Bill und Ballchen, Ein Bilderbuch fur Kleine Kinder ("Bill and Playing Ball, A Picture Book for Young Children")

Berlin: Herbert Stuffer, 1924. Original color pictorial paper covered boards, green cloth spine. IN ORIGINAL COLOR PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (very good with one tear). With 10 superb and expressive full-page color illustrations by Ehmke in what is now considered to be a groundbreaking new style termed, "The New Objectivity," (Neue Sachlichkeit) which emerged as a style in Germany in the 1920s as a challenge to Expressionism. As its name suggests, it offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic, or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism 1 9.5x19.5cm. This is the second children's book by the illustrator Ehmcke (1906-1982), with motifs from the world of children's toys: teddy bears, merry-go-round, wooden horses, sailing dinghy, etc. "The 'Steglitz Workshop' was created in 1900 by G. Belwe, F. H. Ehmcke and F. W. Kleukens in protest against the formal exuberance of Art Nouveau for commercial art and book art, and rather introducing a new factual, if not delicately aesthetic, bringing in, among other things, the interaction of children with the world of toys. Title and last leaf faintly stained, otherwise very good. A nice and well-preserved copy with the rare dust jacket.