Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 546

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(DESIGN / POSTERS.) Hinkefuss, Carl Ernst; editor. 10 Jahre Deutsche Werbe-Graphik. Photographic frontispiece of Hinkefuss and 27 numerous brightly colored reproductions and tipped-in plates of 1920s posters, trademarks, calendars and other German graphic arts, including works by Lüdecke, Silberstein & Neumann, Deffke, Elsner, and many others. Folio, original cloth-backed boards with pictorial cover onlay by Deffke of an Indian head, a bit soiled and edgeworn; front free endpaper wrinkled. (Berlin) / Charlottenburg: International GmbH, 1923

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Number 162 of an unknown limitation. An eminent commercial artist, Hinkefuss was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund from 1919, was aesthetically tied to the principles of the Bauhaus, and embraced avant-garde typography. This compendium and his graphic design magazine, "Qualität," helped establish his design grammar of modern advertising and commercial art of the 1920s.