Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 260

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

"KART - SA" / EROTIK - EXOTIK / MARMORSAAL - ZOO. Circa 1919.

29¾x36¾ inches, 75½x93¼ cm. A. Rogall, Berlin.
Condition B+: small tears and repaired tears at edges; creases in margins and image; paper, tipped to mount. Matted and framed.

The German writer and poet Alfred Richard Meyer, alias "Munkepunke", founded the "Klub Kartoffelsalat" in 1920 and organized literary evenings in the Café Innsbruck in Berlin. The German Writers Union poet Kurt Bartsch wrote in his 1977 "Songspiel" Der Bauch: "A real workers' state / needs a real potato salad." "Hyazinth Lehmann was the alter ego or cabaret character of Emerich Reeck." Also mentioned is Grit Hegresa - The motto in the poster - "kartoffelsalat fruh und spat kartoffelsalat" translates to "Potato salad, early and late, potato salad." Rare.

From the Hans Sachs Collection.
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