May 06, 2002 - Sale 1935

Sale 1935 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BERLINER VORORTE. Circa 1908.
27x18 1/4 inches. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B+: creases in image; overpainting in margins.
Berliner Vororte<> was a book published in 1908 by Baedeker and Moeller describing the land surrounding Berlin. Here, in the form of a map, Bernhard cleverly puts the title in the center to represent the city, with small villages against a green background all around it. This image served as a book cover as well as a small in-door poster.
ref: Lucian Bernhard<>, IFA Stuttgart 1999, p. 134 cat. no. 72, Das Fruhe Plakat<>, vol. 3, Gebr. Mann, 1980, no. 145, table 11.