460 - Fidus (actually Hugo Reinhold KJ Höppener; Lübeck 1868 - 1948 Woltersdorf). Collection with 2 autographs, 1 postcard album and 2 illustrated works. 1910-48.

Fidus (actually Hugo Reinhold KJ Höppener; Lübeck 1868 - 1948 Woltersdorf). Collection with 2 autographs, 1 postcard album and 2 illustrated works. 1910-48. The painter and illustrator Fidus lived in Woltersdorf near Berlin after his training, maintained contacts with the intellectual circles of the time and devoted himself to the ideas of light worship and nudism.- Contained: 1. Photographic portrait postcard. 1927.- Signed below the image 'Fidus greets!'.- Photograph by Paul Isenfels.- With slight silvering, inscribed on the reverse in a more recent hand. 2. From the Germanic Bible. 12 Fidus strips. Woltersdorf, self-published, no date. - Folder with handwritten, signed dedication 'with Nordic greetings for the New Year 1948'. - Fidus died a few weeks later on February 23, 1948. 3. Goldmann, O. Nudity, Custom and Law. Dresden, 1924. - First edition. 4. First comprehensive exhibition of Fidus's works on his 60th birthday on August 8, 1928. - Catalogue of the exhibitions in Berlin and Hamburg, listing 699 works. 5. Private postcard album with 34 Fidus postcards. - Verso partly inscribed in another hand.