Jack Bilbo An Autobiography, 1948
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary character: Jack Bilbo was born Hugo Bausch in Berlin in 1907. His parents ran a theatre costume business which was seized by the Nazis, after which he fled Germany for the United Kingdom and adopted the name Bilbo. He was briefly interned on the Isle of Man and in 1941 established The Modern Art Gallery where he showed the work of European modernists such as Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. This enormous book, extensively illustrated with innumerable drawings, photographs and tipped-in colour plates of Bilbo’s of paintings, tells the wild tale of Bilbo’s first forty years as an 'artist, author, sculptor, art dealer, philosopher, and a modernist fighter for humanity'.
Title: Jack Bilbo An Autobiography The first forty years of the complete and intimate life story of an Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveller, and a Modernist Fighter for Humanity.
Author: Jack Bilbo [Born Hugo Bausch]
Publisher: Modern Art Gallery Ltd, London
Publication date: 1948 first edition
Format: hardcover Red Buckram Binding, with dust jacket
Pages: 468 pages
Condition: very good. Dust jacket with tears and a large loss to rear cover otherwise a very nice copy of this extraordinary book which is uncommon in a decent dust jacket
Stock Number: RB02707
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary character: Jack Bilbo was born Hugo Bausch in Berlin in 1907. His parents ran a theatre costume business which was seized by the Nazis, after which he fled Germany for the United Kingdom and adopted the name Bilbo. He was briefly interned on the Isle of Man and in 1941 established The Modern Art Gallery where he showed the work of European modernists such as Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. This enormous book, extensively illustrated with innumerable drawings, photographs and tipped-in colour plates of Bilbo’s of paintings, tells the wild tale of Bilbo’s first forty years as an 'artist, author, sculptor, art dealer, philosopher, and a modernist fighter for humanity'.
Title: Jack Bilbo An Autobiography The first forty years of the complete and intimate life story of an Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveller, and a Modernist Fighter for Humanity.
Author: Jack Bilbo [Born Hugo Bausch]
Publisher: Modern Art Gallery Ltd, London
Publication date: 1948 first edition
Format: hardcover Red Buckram Binding, with dust jacket
Pages: 468 pages
Condition: very good. Dust jacket with tears and a large loss to rear cover otherwise a very nice copy of this extraordinary book which is uncommon in a decent dust jacket
Stock Number: RB02707
An extraordinary book by an extraordinary character: Jack Bilbo was born Hugo Bausch in Berlin in 1907. His parents ran a theatre costume business which was seized by the Nazis, after which he fled Germany for the United Kingdom and adopted the name Bilbo. He was briefly interned on the Isle of Man and in 1941 established The Modern Art Gallery where he showed the work of European modernists such as Picasso and Kurt Schwitters. This enormous book, extensively illustrated with innumerable drawings, photographs and tipped-in colour plates of Bilbo’s of paintings, tells the wild tale of Bilbo’s first forty years as an 'artist, author, sculptor, art dealer, philosopher, and a modernist fighter for humanity'.
Title: Jack Bilbo An Autobiography The first forty years of the complete and intimate life story of an Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveller, and a Modernist Fighter for Humanity.
Author: Jack Bilbo [Born Hugo Bausch]
Publisher: Modern Art Gallery Ltd, London
Publication date: 1948 first edition
Format: hardcover Red Buckram Binding, with dust jacket
Pages: 468 pages
Condition: very good. Dust jacket with tears and a large loss to rear cover otherwise a very nice copy of this extraordinary book which is uncommon in a decent dust jacket
Stock Number: RB02707
