Dec 18, 2013 - Sale 2336

Sale 2336 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
LUCIAN BERNHARD (1883-1972) DIGNOWITY'S KRONEN - GARN. 1911.
24x16 inches, 61x40 1/2 cm. Holerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition A: pencil notation in lower left corner. Paper.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Lucian Bernhard invented a new, modern and pragmatic way to design posters. His Sachs-Plakat (Object Poster), presented objects depicted by themselves in flat colors, with no ornamentation or shadow, against a monochromatic background with very large, bold typography. DFP-III 211, Wember 75, Fruhe Berliner 66, Chemnitz 29.