ETHNOLOGY - [Leo FROBENIUS] - Maria WEYERSBERG (1886–1987, p - Lot 307

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ETHNOLOGY - [Leo FROBENIUS] - Maria WEYERSBERG (1886–1987, p - Lot 307
ETHNOLOGY - [Leo FROBENIUS] - Maria WEYERSBERG (1886–1987, painter and ethnologist, collaborator of the ethnologist and explorer Leo FROBENIUS (1873–1938) / Extensive correspondence in German addressed to Emma CABIRE, translator and editor at the “Cahier du Sud” in Paris, regarding her collaboration (articles and translations) with Leo Frobenius and, after his death, with his Institute: 3 autograph-signed postcards (1954–56 from Frankfurt); 1 typewritten and signed postcard (1942 from Frankfurt); 13 handwritten, signed letters totaling 39 pages in quarto format (1954–57 from Frankfurt); 14 autograph signed letters totaling 19 pages in quarto on the letterhead of the “Forschunginstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt” (1933–1955) / Enclosed: 1 signed typewritten letter from Dr. Rhotert (2 pages, quarto, same letterhead, from 1933) – N.B.:The exhibitions of cave paintings from the Frobenius Collection at the Galerie Pleyel in Paris in 1930, followed by the one at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1933—which featured prehistoric works from one of Frobenius’s expeditions—inspired Emma Cabire; she wrote articles in *Cahier du Sud* and even dedicated a special issue to him in 1936; Emma Cabire contributed to Frobenius’s fame in France] / Enclosed: “Der Kopf als Schicksal,” by Leo Frobenius, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich, 1924, bound in orange cloth, with numerous photographs and inset illustrations
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