Italien

1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Illustrated Dust Jacket. 4to. 144 pages ; 30 cm. In Italian. Title translates into English as, “Aldo Carpi: 28 Color Plates, 63 Illustrations in Black. Includes 91 plates of Capri’s works. Black and White plates are printed; Color plates are pasted onto the pages. “Aldo Carpi (1886 – 1973) was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp… In 1930 he became the professor and deacon of the faculty of painting at his alma mater, where he would teach young painters including Bruno Cassinari, Carlo Martini and Trento Longaretti… In January 1944, during World War II, he was arrested after a colleague informed the Nazis of his partisan activities. He was imprisoned in the Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen-Gusen, where he kept a diary and made a number of sketches portraying life and death in the camp. Carpi was liberated at the end of the war. He returned to Milan, where in 1956 he was awarded the state prize for his works and cultural merits. He also became the Dean of the Brera Academy. In 1972 he had a large retrospective of his works. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) Contains works from before and after Carpi’s imprisonment. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Inscribed by Carpi on the front end page. Both Book and Dust Jacket are in very good condition. (ITART-1-8)