Nov 12, 2007 - Sale 2128

Sale 2128 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FRITZ UHLICH (1893-1973) GERMANY / STUTTGART. Circa 1932.
35 3/4x24 inches. Fricke & Co., Stuttgart.
Condition B+: restored upper right corner; repaired tears and restoration in image; creases in image.
"In the last year of the Weimar Republic, the traffic society of Stuttgart printed a poster by Fritz Uhlich which was supposed to present the town to travellers as a city of new buildings and thus to consolidate its reputation as Southern Germany's most modern metropolis. Historical Stuttgart is set against the shadows of the past, with the new trend-setting sights looming above: the Schocken Department store, the Tagblatt tower and the railway station tower." (Christian Maryska, Paper Skyscraper p. 39 GHI Bulletin Supplement 2, 2005).