Aug 05, 2015 - Sale 2389

Sale 2389 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BURKHARD MANGOLD (1873-1950) ROLLSCHUHBAHN. 1910.
39 1/2x27 3/4 inches, 100 1/4x70 1/2 cm. J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich.
Condition A-: minor creases in corners; restored loss in left edge. Mounted on Japan.
Burkhard Mangold's artistic career covered several distinct areas including painting, stained glass and poster design. In 1905, he began working with the inimitable Swiss printing house of Wolfensberger and shortly became one of the pioneers of modern Swiss poster art. Here, the roller skaters are depicted without outline in the style of Ludwig Hohlwein, but Mangold, in an almost impressionist-style involving small dots of color, weaves a collage of different graphic patterns into a graceful image. Mangold 103.