May 13, 2013 - Sale 2314

Sale 2314 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WERNER (DATES UNKNOWN) SPANDAUER ZEITUNG. Circa 1935.
27 1/2x37 inches, 70x94 cm. Stuckrath & Co., Spandau.
Condition B: repaired tears at edges and in image; creases, abrasions and restoration along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins and image. Framed.
A progressive, allegorical design for an ambitious newspaper from a town located on the outskirts of Berlin. Situated at the confluence of two rivers (the Havel and the Spree), bridges were perhaps an appropriate image for the newspaper to employ. Their slogan, "The bridge from party to party -- from the people to the state."