Walter Müller-Worpswede / Hans Schiebelhuth: Hymne des Maropampa (Hymn of the Maropampa), 1921. Ballad by Hans Schiebelhuth. First hand print of the Hollander press, Worpswede 1921. Original cardboard cover with a full-page woodcut in red with hand colouring recto, woodcut vignette in red with hand colouring verso, together with 10 hand-coloured woodcuts in black on handmade laid paper (2 of which are full-page and signed in pencil by the artist) by Walter Müller-Worpswede. Number 4 of a planned but never executed edition of 200 copies. Signed with ink by Hans Schiebelhuth in the imprint.
An almost unknown artist's book of German Expressionism, which is not listed in any standard work due to its great rarity. Full of beautiful, hand-coloured and partly signed woodcuts and crazy expressionist poetry. An exceptional example of Expressionism and its naive fetishisation of non-European cultures. "Back to nature!".
