despalles overcomes the distance that still exists between the German and French language areas. Thus the artist's books of the edition are mostly conceived from the outset as bilingual, French and German, or even trilingual. As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations. In them, artists and poets from different aesthetic categories meet.
Georg Trakl /
Robert Schwarz /
Johannes Strugalla
Abendland
Poem by Georg Trakl, third version. Lithographies by Robert Schwarz. Book
design, handset typography and letterpress printing by Johannes Strugalla.
Robert Schwarz, Johannes Strugalla
Georg Trakl, "Abendland / Pays du couchant
(Occident / dusk country)
Bilingual: German, French. New French translation by Françoise Despalles.
Lithographies on various papers, text on transparent paper. 23 pages, 26 × 28 cm.
Softcover. 150 copies, numbered and signed by the artists.
Mainz, 1985.
