EUROPE / ESTONIA. Independent Republic 1918 - 1940 Printed Matter. Period of The Estonian Liberation War 1918 - 1920 and The Russian Civil War 1917 -1922.
Literature. Poetry. Art of Books Design.

Johannes Semper "Walt Whitman" valik luuletustest. Kaas: Ado Vabbe.  Kirjastus "Varrak", Tallinnas 1920. A.-S. "Warrak'u" trükk, Tartus.

"Walt Whitman" Essays and Extract Poetry of Legendary American Poet Walt Whitman Estonian Translation by Famous Estonian Writer Johannes Semper 
with Great Author's Avant-Garde Cover by Artist Ado Vabbe, Tallinn 1920.
Publisher "Varrak" Kirjastus, Tallinn 1920. Typography "Warrak", Tartu. Estonian language. 64 pages. Size 155 x 225 mm. Weight 75 gr. 
Publishing original soft cover. The book is really old, which printed 96 years ago, but not modern reprint or more late re-edition. Full complete copy. 
Very Fine condition, without any remarks, little damaged spine, traces of time (please see images).

Ado (Adolf) Vabbe (1892 - 1961)  - was one of most innovative artists in Estonian art from the 1910s to the end of 1920s, whose name is accociated with the advent of Futurism, 
Cubo-Futurism and Expressionism. Vabbe's abstract works are also known. Vabbe was one of the founders of the Pallas Artists Union and the art school by the same name, 
where the whole generation of Estonian artists was trained in 1920s. Vabbe studied and worked in Germany and Russia. His significance in Estonian culture is founded 
on his Avant-Garde work, for which reason innovative cultural groupings maintained close contact with Vabbe. Vabbe was connected to the "Noor Eesti" traditions, 
the art worlds of "Beardsley" and "Mir Iskusstva". He personally knew Vassily Kandinsky and was influenced by the abstract impressionism of the group "Der Blauer Reiter". 
From all of this he synthesised his own style, which is close to Art Deco.famous Estonian books graphic, arts artist, modernist, constructivist, abstractionist. 
Member of Estonian Artists’ school "Pallas", Group of Cubism and Constructivism. Illustrator 60 books - Barbarus, Roht, Under, Visnapuu...

Johannes Semper (22 March [O.S. 10 March] 1892 in Pahuvere, Viljandi County – 21 February 1970 in Tallinn) was an Estonian poet, writer, translator and politician.
A student and later a prominent scholar at the University of Tartu, he was briefly nominated as Minister for Education of Estonia when the country was occupied 
by the Soviet Union in 1940. He wrote the lyrics of the Anthem of Estonian SSR.

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