Book Prolog I: 1947 German Artists - Hans Orlowski: Prolog I : Portfolio of contemporary German drawings and prints. Designed by the artistic group Prolog the set was intended to showcase contemporary German artists in 1947 with a particular strength of artists from Munich. Ed. Carl Linfert, Germany: Gebr. Mann Verlag G.m.b.H, Berlin, 1947. Released in a numbered edition of 1000 copies, this being number 372. Folio includes presentation pamphlet printed in German and English which bears the edition number. Folio includes – Collotypes after drawings by Graphische Anstalt Ganymed, Berlin; original wood cuts and lithographs. Each image on laid paper and tipped into a paper folio mat. The paper measures 14 3/4” x 9 1/2” to 13”h X 8 1/2” depending upon the image and each paper folio is 16 1/2” x 11 3/4”. All measurements are approximate. The folio includes the following images: Plate 1. Carl Hofer, ‘Two Heads’ after a pencil drawing, Plate 2. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, ’Sun Over the Lake’, after a wash drawing, Plate 3. Josef Hegenbarth, ‘At the Coffee House’, after a crayon drawing, Plate 5. Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, ‘Fishermen at the Boats’ after a wash drawing, Plate 7. Max Leube, ‘Two Nudes’, after a charcoal drawing, Plate 8. Friedrich Stabenau, ‘The Lovers’, after a pen and ink drawing. Plate 10. Margarete Moll, ‘Head of a Woman’, after a pen and ink drawing, Plate 11. Bruno Merbitz, ‘The Invalide’, after a charcoal drawing, Plate 12. Hans Jaenisch, ‘Cow Pasture’, after a pencil drawing. Plate 13. Hans Orlowski, ‘Head of a Man’, original woodcut, hand-signed by the artist in graphite, Plate 14. Paul Rosie, ‘Street of the Dead’, after a pen and ink drawing, Plate 15. Gerhard C. Schultz, ‘Decayed Landscape’, after a pen and ink drawing, Plate 16. Mac Zimmermann, ‘Rigging of Phantastic Figures’, after a pen and ink drawing, Plate 17. Karl Hartung, ‘Phantastic Skeleton’, Original lithograph, hand-signed by the artist in graphite, Plate 18. Graf Heinrich Luckner, ‘The Realm of Death’, after a red crayon drawing, Plate 19. Ima Breusing, ‘River Landscape’, after a drawing in pen and wash, Plate 20. Bernhard Heiliger, ‘Woman with a Walking Stick,’ after a pencil drawing, Plate 21. Peter Fischer, ‘The Homeless’, after a drawing in pen and wash, Plate 22. Cornelia Ruhtenberg, ‘Girl’, after a charcoal drawing, Plate 24. Gustav Seitz, ‘Woman with Gown’, after a wash drawing, Plate 25. Gerhard Marcks, ‘The Ploughman’, after a wood cut.