(Poster Art) Ludwig HOHLWEIN (1874 – 1949) Rare German Army recruiting poster, entitled “Und du?”, 47” x 32” [1929]. Credits at bottom read, “HERAUSGEBER – DER STAHLHELM, BUND DER FRONTSOLDATEN DRUCK – HERM – SONNTAG & CO- MUNCHEN”.
An iconic work by one of the greatest poster artists of the twentieth century. Alain Weill, the noted poster historian commented that Hohlwein was, “the most prolific and brilliant German posterist of the 20th century… Beginning with his first efforts, Hohlwein found his style with disconcerting facility. It would vary little for the next forty years. The drawing was perfect from the start, nothing seemed alien to him, and in any case, nothing posed a problem for him. His figures are full of touches of color and a play of light and shade that brings them out of their background and gives them substance.”1
Extremely rare. Paret 156, Rhodes 47, Stuttgart Catalogue 282, Wrede 192.
Framed and conservation backed, extremely fine.
(EXA 4053) SOLD.
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1 Alain Weill, The Poster: a Worldwide Survey and History (1985), 171-2.).
