May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
WOLFGANG ALEXANDER SCHLOSSER (1913-1984) OSVOBOZENÁ CÍNA [LIBERATED CHINA.] 1949.
37 1/2x24 inches, 95 1/2x61 cm. Statni Tiskarna, Prague.
Condition A-: pin-holes in corners; minor restoration at edges.
Schlosser studied book design in Leipzig and art in Cologne and Prague. During World War II he fled to England where he designed propaganda posters for the British Ministry of Information. Returning to Czechoslovakia after the war he worked as a graphic and exhibition designer. He is best remembered for the posters he designed for Czechoslovak Airlines (CSA) right after the war. After the Soviet invasion Schlosser turned his artistic hand towards pro-state, anti-west propaganda and movie posters.