May 19, 2022 - Sale 2605

Sale 2605 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

HYMMEN (DATES UNKNOWN)

DEUTSCHE BAU AUSSTELLUNG. 1949.


16x11 1/2 inches, 40 1/2x29 cm.
Condition A-: small replaced loss at top edge; minor creases in corners.

With reconstruction and renewal being prominent themes in Germany in the post-war years, exhibitions on construction and building were fairly common. Although this artist is unreferenced, his poster is an adept evocation of wire, brick and blueprint. It is a dynamic image of a confident future - just the tone Germany needed in those years.