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GUSTAV JAHN (1879-1919) HOHE TAUERN. Circa 1900. 43 1/4x31 1/2 inches, 110x80 cm. K.K. Hof, Vienna. Condition A-: light creases, staining and soiling in margins and image; horizontal folds. Paper. Gustav Jahn was a painter and poster designer as well as an avid mountaineer. Born and raised in Vienna, he was a star pupil at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a painter his specialties were mountain landscapes and alpine views. In addition to his paintings he also designed more than two dozen posters for the Austrian State Railway. For many years he also provided illustrations for the catalogues of the Viennese sporting goods store Mitzi Langer, and many of his images of skier and mountaineers graced the cover of their catalogues. Twelve of Jahn's large alpine landscape paintings were used to decorate the interior of the Austrian Government Building at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. He died in a mountaineering accident on August 17, 1919. Many of Jahn's posters are difficult to date and we are only able to do so approximately via the train timetables which have been over printed on some.
