Nov 10, 2003 - Sale 1984

Sale 1984 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ERNST LUDWIG FRANKE WIEN / IMPERIAL FEIGENKAFFE. 1938.
411/4x471/4 inches. Obpacher, Munich.
Condition B+: restoration, repaired tears and overpainting in margins; vertical fold.
An advertisement for coffee offering an expansive, graphic, bird's-eye view of Vienna. The expansive "Café Society" is seen from the North, overlooking Leopoldsberg and the Baroque Leopoldkirche. Franke was an Austrian poster and commercial designer. In 1927 he was co-founder (and first vice-president) of the Bund Österreichischer Gebrauchsgraphiker, with Joseph Binder, Leo Pernitsch and others.