?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
RUDOLF JUNK (1880-1943) STAATS = LOTTERIE / HAUPTTREFFER 200.000 KRONEN. 1910. 48 3/4x37 inches, 123 3/4x94 cm. K.K. Huf-und-Staatsdrucker, Vienna. Condition B+: replaced losses, repaired tears, creases, restoration and time-staining in margins; repaired tears, creases and restoration in image and along vertical and horizontal folds. Junk studied under Heinrich Lefler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was a graphic designer and painter who became a member of the Hagenbund. "The textile ornamentation of this lottery advertisement with its text blocks is typical of lottery advertising around 1910. These posters usually had no picture and sought to give the impression of an official savings stamp, consisting of an often carpet-like ornamental pattern and a richly decorated border. The Imperial Arms of Austria invariably occurs . . . in order to emphasize that this lottery is organized 'by explicit permission of his Royal, Imperial and Apostolic Majesty'" (Vienna Secession p. 96.) As the design here suggests, Junk also designed banknotes while working for the Austrian State Printing Office.
