Dec 15, 2010 - Sale 2234

Sale 2234 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949) GARTENSTADT HARLACHING. Circa 1910.
22 7/8x44 1/8 inches, 58 1/2x112 1/2 cm. G. Schuh & Cie., Munich.
Condition A- / B+: minor creases in margins and image; abrasions along vertical and horizontal folds.
Hohlwein designed five posters for a property developer who was building in the areas surrounding Munich, all were in the same horizontal format. Here, as in the others, Hohlwein depicts an upper-middle class idyll with the well built houses prominently featured. Hohlwein / Munich 172, DFP-III 1400.