Aug 01, 2007 - Sale 2120

Sale 2120 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CESAR KLEIN WER NICHT ARBEITET IST DER TOTENGRABER SEINER KINDER. 1919.
48x34 1/4 inches. (122 x 86 cm.)
Condition B+: losses, tears, wrinkles and flaking all along the right edge; creases in image.
A powerful and somber socio-political message, conveying "whoever doesn't work, is a gravedigger for his children." Klein designed several posters in the politically unstable years in Germany after the First World War.