May 09, 2024 - Sale 2668

Sale 2668 - Lot 184

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

A. THERSTAPPEN (DATES UNKNOWN)

7TES HALLEN - SPORT - FEST AM ZOO. 1914.


27½x37 inches, 69¾x94 cm. Gebr. Hartkopf, Berlin.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and minor overpainting at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds; ink stamp in lower left corner.

A poster advertising the "7th Indoor Sports Festival at the Zoo," featuring relay races, cycling, gymnastics, pole vaulting, wrestling and hockey. Pre-sale tickets were sold at the A. Wertheim department store and other sports shops. Therstappen designed at least two other posters, for Satrap Cameras, one very much in the style of Hohlwein.