May 10, 2004 - Sale 2006

Sale 2006 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JULIUS KLINGER (1876-1942) 1,000,000. 1911.
131/2x19 inches. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B+: restored losses, restoration and creases in margins.
Several different versions of this poster exist, all with the same image, but in different sizes and with different text. It is from one of these variations that we learn that "One Million" was a burlesque show with accompanying cinematography. Klinger, who was one of the most prolific artists in Berlin before the First World War, utilizes his usual humor and graphic invention in this poster. He has constructed a brilliant image, in which a triangular wedge of people from all walks of life are threading themselves through the text (of which the "1,000,000" is both the ground the people are running on, and the basis of the plot!), and running after a man who was certainly a lottery winner. With very few exceptions, Klinger always found a graphically inventive way to illustrate any subject. Klinger P93a (var), DFP-III 1723.