Erika Hanfstaengl, Walter Hege (Photographer)
Die Brüder Cosmas Damian und Egid Quirin Asam.
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1955. First edition. 62 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.25", is bound in black cloth, with black-lettered gold spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Illustrated with tipped-in color frontispiece (reproducing jacket illustration) and eighty b&w photographs on plates. Dust jacket displays minor tearing at top extremities. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"The Asam brothers (Cosmas Damian Asam and Egid Quirin Asam) were sculptors, painters, and architects, who worked mostly together and in southern Germany. They are among the most important representatives of the German late Baroque."