May 07, 2007 - Sale 2113

Sale 2113 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949) HERBST IN WIESBADEN. Circa 1930.
33x22 inches. Bruckmann, Munich.
Condition A: matted and framed.
Hohlwein designed several travel posters for Germany based on the seasons, but this one may have given him particular pleasure as he was a Wiesbaden native. In 1926, poster art, under the influence of Hohlwein, was described to have grown "and thrived and today stands before us, gleaming, smiling, radiating happiness and contentment" (Hohlwein p. 37). Roughly four years later this image exemplifies all of those qualities. Stuttgart 300, Hohlwein 247.