?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
WILHELM FRIEDRICH BURGER (1882-1964)
JUNGFRAUBAHN. 1914.
35 1/2x48 3/4 inches, 90 1/4x123 3/4 cm. Hofer & Co., Zurich. Condition B: losses in margins; extensive repaired tears, creases, abrasions and restoration in margins and image; minor skinning and flaking in image. Mounted on Chartex.
"Skiing made it possible to visit the mountains that had hitherto been inaccessible and dangerous. Posters often showed skiers stopping and admiring the magnificent scenery . . . [images with] the foreground in shadow and the light of the snowy mountains in the distance . . . convey a feeling of serenity and poetry that undoubtedly persuaded many to take up skiing . . . in the same style, Wilhelm Friedrich Burger produced an exceptional work . . . which shows a sleigh being pulled by dogs through beautiful scenery. This work . . . is among the best Swiss posters that helped to give Swiss tourism its reputation throughout the world" (Swiss Winter Sports p. 24). This is the larger format. Margadant 258, Swiss Winter Sports 16, Paradis p. 170, Sports d'Hiver pp. 32-33, Swiss Poster 258.
