May 10, 2004 - Sale 2006

Sale 2006 - Lot 31

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PLAKATKUNST IM KLASSEN KAMPF / 1924-1932. Portfolio containing 24 reproductions of political poster for the Weimar Republic. 1974.
Sizes vary, each approximately 361/2x241/2 inches.
Condition varies, generally A: folded as issued.
Portfolio of 24 hard-edged German political posters, reproduced from the collection of Museum fur Deutsche Geschichte Berlin, featuring powerful works by prominent artists such as Kathe Kollwitz, Max Pechstein, John Heartfield and others. In its original cloth-bound box with printed cover and original essay by Hellmut Rademacher on the nature and history of "poster art of the class struggle." An unusually rare series to find, never seen in its original box.