Oct 10, 2024 - Sale 2681

Sale 2681 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

ALBERT FUSS (1889-1969)

HAMBURG - AMERIKA LINIE / NORD - AMERIKA. Circa 1935.


33x23½ inches, 84x59¾ cm. Kunst & Werbedruck, Frankfurt.
Condition B+: minor repaired tears at edges, some into upper text; overpainting in margins and lower left image.

Fuss was a prolific designer for the Hamburg-America Line. The extensive body of work he created for the company in the 1930s and 40s takes on many different aspects of traveling by ship, from the vessels themselves to the exotic lands and seas through which the ships pass. This is the smaller format. German version.

Encyclopedie de l'Affiche p. 207 (var).