{"id":25588,"date":"2025-07-01T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/objekte\/einband-fuer-afrikanische-maerchen\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:46:46","slug":"binding-cover-for-afrikanische-maerchen","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/objects\/binding-cover-for-afrikanische-maerchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Binding Cover for \u201cAfrikanische M\u00e4rchen\u201d, edited by Carl Meinhof, and Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1921"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-objekt'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-12 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-2'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/kuenstler_taxonomy\/anny-wottitz-en\/\" class=\"artist-tag ho-sd-h4\"><span>Anny Wottitz<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h4' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Binding Cover for \u201cAfrikanische M\u00e4rchen\u201d, edited by Carl Meinhof, and Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1921<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-top-5'>\n\n<div  class='header-image-wrapper'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 9224,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-212x300.jpg\",\"width\":212,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":8124},\"large\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-724x1024.jpg\",\"width\":724,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":75562},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-768x1086.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1086,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":84723},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-1086x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1086,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":167249},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-1448x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1448,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":292411},\"small\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-311x440.jpg\",\"width\":311,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":15671},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-410x580.jpg\",\"width\":410,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":25785},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-509x720.jpg\",\"width\":509,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":38584},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-905x1280.jpg\",\"width\":905,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":117319},\"full\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923-1357x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1357,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":258547},\"original\":{\"file\":\"1758_Anny-Wottitz_Einband-fuer-Afrikanische-Maerchen_1922-1923.jpg\",\"width\":2121,\"height\":3000}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:141.44271570014%; 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Der Buchdeckel ist aus braunem Pflanzenfasergeflecht mit einem schmalen roten Streifen gestaltet, f\u00fcr den Buchr\u00fccken wurde dunkle Baumrinde verwendet und halbierte Samenkapseln dienen als Kantenschutz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"content-reveal-controls\" @click=\"toggle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-open\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-plus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-close\">\n\t\t\t\t<!--button type=\"button\" class=\"ho-button is-text\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Read less<\/span>\n<\/button-->\n<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-minus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Detailed image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/reveal>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1 padding-top-2 mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-center mobile-flex-align-center-center'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center mobile-text-align-center'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Date:<br>1922\u20131923<br><br>Inventory number:<br>1758<br><br>Object type:<br>Book binding<br><br>Technique \/ Material: <br>Various plant materials, cords, threads, glass beads and parts of snail shells; endsheets made of paper (red, purple), flyleaf made of coated paper (black)<br><br>Dimensions:<br>21 x 13 x 3,3 cm<br><br>Provenance:<br>Acquisition from antiquarian art dealer Ben Weinreb, London, 1964<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1 color-fg-highlight-2'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>Anni Wottitz radically challenged the tradition of bookbinding with her book covers \u2013 much to the chagrin of Otto Dorfner, head of the bookbinding workshop at the Bauhaus Weimar. 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