Dec 18, 2013 - Sale 2336

Sale 2336 - Lot 88

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FRITZ SCHONPFLUG (1873-1951) [WIENER - NEUSTADTER / FLUGWOCHE.] 1911.
41x28 3/4 inches, 104x73 1/4 cm. A. Luigard.
Condition A-: creases in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds; errant pen mark in image. Paper.
A scene from an early aviation meet at the Wiener Neustadt airfield which was constructed in 1909. Austrian aviation pioneers, Igo Etrich, Karl Illner and Adolf Warchalowski all used the field for flight testing, and perhaps, are even depicted here. Rare