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Complete run of art nouveau journal Pan Berlin, 1895-1900 PAN ART JOURNAL – MEIER-GRAEFE, Julius (1867-1935) and BIERBAUM, Otto J. (1865-1910), editors. Pan . Berlin: Genossenschaft Pan, 1895-1900. Complete run of the influential art nouveau journal, “the first significant German periodical of the Nineties devoted to contemporary art and literature” (Garvey & Wick) . When poet Otto Julius Bierbaum and art critic Julius Meier-Graefe launched Pan in 1895, it was the first German periodical advocating for new directions in poetry and the graphic arts, as well as Buchkunst —encompassing printing, typography, design, and bookbinding. Like the journal Jugend (1896-1940), the editors of Pan were critical of the artistic policy of the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II. While Pan actively supported the work of unknown young artists, they also showcased artists with international reputations, including Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Theodor Heine Ludwig von Hofmann Max Liebermann Edvard Munch Auguste Rodin George Seurat, Paul Signac and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Pan printed stories and poems by writers of the emerging Symbolist and Naturalist movements, and the pages of the journal were filled with original designs and illustrations. Each of the 21 issues was printed in an edition of between 1100 to 1400 copies, and most sold by subscription. Besides the standard edition as here, there was a luxury edition printed on imperial handmade paper, and an “artist” edition with additional original drawings that could only be purchased by members of the Pan cooperative. The journal proved to not be commercially viable, and ceased publication in 1900. This is one of 1100 standard edition copies issued on copper plate printing paper, and with Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender” often lacking in other sets. E. Garvey & P. Wick, The Turn of a Century, 1885-1910: Art nouveau–Jugendstil Books (1970), 98. See F. Schlawe, Literarische Zeitschriften, 1885-1910 (1961), pp. 48ff. 21 issues, 5 volumes bound in 10, folio (361 x 278mm). Titles, lists of plates, and other illustrations, color initials, vignettes and tail-pieces, with decorative protective tissue guards (occasional toning and foxing throughout). 229 (of 234) etchings, aquatints, lithographs, facsimiles, and photo reproductions, many printed in color and several mounted on stubs (lacking “Mondaufgang” by Arthur Illies “Umrahmung” by Max Klinger “Landschaft” by Hans Thoma and two reproductions of works by Karl Haider; also lacking two poems on 4 pages, dedicated to Hans Thoma . Early 20th-century half vellum, gilt leather titling pieces, top edges gilt (without original printed paper wrappers to individual issues; minor rubbing to boards and spines).