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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JOSEF GOLLER (1868-1947) DRESDEN GOLF LINKS. Circa 1909. 31x19 1/2 inches, 78 3/4x19 1/2 cm. Th. Beyer, Dresden. Condition B+: tears, repaired tears and staining at edges; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image; tape on verso; pencil notation in lower left corner. Paper. The golf links in Dresden were out by the city's horse track in the Reick district. That golf wasn't such a major part of tourism in Germany can be understood through the following passage, "go out on the Dresden Golf Links of a morning and you'll find hardly a German soul playing. It's the same in Vienna - the same in Berlin. They have links because it's the fashion in England" (Villa Elsa-A Story of German Family Life, by Stuart Oliver Henry, E.P. Durron & Co., 1920. p. 82). However, the Dresden Golf Links were mentioned in a major newspaper advertising campaign for Dresden, "The Rendezvous of All nations," in March and April, 1909. Ads promoting travel to Dresden, listing many of the cultural and social activities offered there, appeared in such prominent American newspapers as the Brooklyn Eagle, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Daily Tribune. Chemnitz 159.
