WHEN IN GERMANY DON'T MISS / THE LAKE OF CONSTANCE. Circa 1930.
39½x25½ inches, 100½x65 cm. Herm. Sonntag & Co., Munich. Condition A- / B+: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image; creases in margins and image. Framed.
This is an example of Hohlwein's exploration of depth through the use of color, and is one of the large number of travel posters he designed. Here, for the Bodensee (Constance Lake, which lies between Germany, Austria and Switzerland), he depicts the giant statue of a lion that guards the harbor at Lindau, and uses seagulls and the distant mountains to convey the vastness of the body of water. He also uses a string of flags to denote the different nationalities represented around the lake. Another variant says "Lake of Constance" in the upper title, with a solid black box along the bottom. This is the English version. Hohlwein / Stuttgart 292.
