Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN LUDENDORFF-SPENDE. 1918.
227/8x345/8 inches. Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Berlin.
Condition B: wear along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears; wear in image.
Bent over double, this veteran is holding his crutch in one arm and tools in the other. Named after General Erich Ludendorff, who was one of Germany's principal strategists on the Western Front after 1916, this fund for disabled veterans "also served to build patriotism and morale" (Paret p. 92). Rickards 127, Paret 133, Gallo p. 214, Weill 227.