About the cover:
Full-grain binding Orange-brown oasis goatskin with very colourful leather overlays and paintings running from the front cover over the spine to the back cover, without title, leather endpapers, natural edge, spine and flyleaf in wine-red Roma laid paper, hinged case covered with rust-red fabric and lined with Verlour material, author and title embossed on the spine.
About the content:
Henry Jaeger: The winner or: The road to Marathon is long
With six lithographs by Alban Welti Ex. No. 49 of 65 numbered and signed copies
Ascona Presse, Ascona 1993 Born in Frankfurt in 1927, Henry Jaeger did military service in the Second World War. After the war, he was imprisoned for criminality and personal failure. From 1965, he lived as a freelance writer in Switzerland, where he died in 2000 in the Ascona poorhouse.
About the artist: Ulrich Widmann grew up in the Black Forest in Southern Germany. When he was 16, started his bookbinding apprenticeship. His mother was also a bookbinder. At the age of 24, he passed his examination for the master’s certificate. Attending further training courses with Hugo Peller at the Centro del libro in Ascona was eye-opening for him: art and book combined.
However, he started a family during this time and soon had three children to support. For some time, he lived with his family in Southern France before moving back to Freiburg i.Br. and working as a picture framer. It was not until 2009 that he started his own bookbindery with renewed vigour and now successfully concentrates on the art of bookbinding. Today, Ulrich Widmann runs his studio in Freiburg and is an active master bookbinder, picture framer and gallery owner. He regularly takes part in international binding competitions and has long been an active member of the board of the MDE – Meister der Einbandkunst (International Association of the Art of Bookbinding).
