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Saturday, 02 December 2017, 02:00 pm

Otto Baumberger, Zurich

Lot 2230

Otto Baumberger, 1889-1961 (CH)

Zurich, approx. 1916

Lithograph printed in colors.
H 1275 mm W 900 mm.

"Wolfsberg" Zürich

CHF3'000 / 5'000
EUR2'700 / 4'500
USD3'200 / 5'300

Hammer Price: CHF 5'500

Annotation:

Condition: A-/L.

Literature:
Reihe Poster Collection 18, 2008. Page 86, No. 94;
Thalmann 2004. Page 64, No. 99;
Rotzler/Schärer/Wobmann 1990. Page 38;
Reihe Plakatgestalter 4, 1988. Page 23, No. 43;
Wobmann 1980. Page 89, No. 84.

Provenance:
Collection Dr. Hans Sachs, Berlin/New York;
Swiss private property.

This poster by Otto Baumberger shows the arrival of a Lake Zurich steamboat at Bürkliplatz, with its fashionable passengers walking out onto the quay and the snow-covered Glarus Alps in the background.
This original poster from the golden age of Swiss poster advertising was lithographed in 1916 at Wolfensberger.