RARE comprehensive monograph on the life and work of the influential German Orientalist painter, illustrator and architect of Jewish origin Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904). After completing his architectural studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Stuttgart, Bauernfeind worked in the architectural firm of Professor Wilhelm Bäumer and later in that of Adolph Gnauth, where he also learned painting. In his earlier paintings, Bauernfeind focused on local views of Germany, as well as motifs from Italy. During his journey to the Levant from 1880 to 1882, he became interested in the Orient and repeated his travels again and again, and finally moved with his wife and son all the way to Pale and. He also lived and worked in Lebanon and Syria. Contains 175 color and b&w full-page reproductions of Gustav Bauernfeind`s works and 20 b&w plates. 305x225mm. XII+368 pages. Brown fake leather Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Color illustration embossed on front cover. Gilt cover and spine. Jacket spine edges slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare richly illustrated pioneering review of the life and works of an eminent 19th-century Orientalist artist is in very good condition.