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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949)
BURGER - KEHL & CO / MARKE PKZ. 1911.
50 3/4x34 3/4 inches, 129x88 1/4 cm. Wolfensberger, Zurich. Condition B+: repaired tears, foxing and discoloration in margins; creases and minor abrasions in image; light tape stain at top edge. Mounted on Japan.
One of three posters Hohlwein designed for the Swiss men's store PKZ. He most likely received these commissions as a result of some of his earliest posters that promoted sport clothing sold by Munich's Hermann Scherrer. This version features an unusual overprint of the store's address. DFP-III 1396 (var), Plakat Schweiz p. 15 (var), not in Hohlwein / Stuttgart.
