May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 540
?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- / B+: repaired tear in top margin; creases in corners.
With reconstruction and renewal a prominent theme 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.