Nov 11, 2005 - Sale 2056

Sale 2056 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 805
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LUDWIG HOHLWEIN STAY YOUNG / PLAYING GOLF IN GERMANY. Circa 1930.
393/4x251/4 inches. Reichsbahnzentrale, Berlin.
Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and minor overpainting in image.
With a stylish young woman teeing off and a castle in the background, Hohlwein communicates the youth, history, fashion, sex appeal and sporting opportunities in Germany. One in a series of ads (by different artists) with the same text, they were clearly aimed towards the older, wealthier class of Americans for whom all of the above elements would have been very seductive. Stuttgart 298.