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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JULIUS KLINGER (1876–1942) WIPAG KLINGER. 1923. 36 1/4x48 1/2 inches, 92x123 1/4 cm. Condition B+: restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears and restoration at edges and in image. Klinger loved using animals in his posters, so much so that a good part of his work seems like a zoo; ducks he held in special regard. Klinger used them, along with their eggs, as an allegory for poster creation. They appear three times in his posters, each time representing an important poster publisher or printer; in 1910 for Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Klinger's publisher in Berlin; for Wolfsberg, the Swiss poster printer in the 1920s; and finally, this image for WIPAG (Wiener Plakatierungs - und Anzeigen Gesellschaft), a large poster billing company in Vienna. Denscher p. 156, Müller-Brockman p. 74.
