Auction 48 - Rare and Important Items
Visit Palestine – Poster Designed by Franz Kraus
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
"Visit Palestine", a poster promoting tourism and immigration to Eretz Israel, designed by Franz Kraus. [No printer's details, 1936]. Signed in print.
A fine, colorful illustration, in lithographic printing – view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, during sunset. In front – the Temple Mount, with the Dome of the Rock, and in the background – houses of Jerusalem.
The poster was designed by Franz Kraus in 1936, during the days of the Fifth Aliyah, commissioned by The Tourist Development Association of Palestine, and is considered the most famous work by Kraus.
It seems that the poster offered here is not the final version of the poster - printed with some differences in colors and in a different size from the size mentioned in the catalogue “Franz Kraus: Posters” (catalogue of an exhibition in the Tel-Aviv Museum. Curator: David Tartakover. Tel-Aviv, 1981).
57X88.5 cm. Good condition. Numerous creases. Slight damages and tears at margins.
A fine, colorful illustration, in lithographic printing – view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, during sunset. In front – the Temple Mount, with the Dome of the Rock, and in the background – houses of Jerusalem.
The poster was designed by Franz Kraus in 1936, during the days of the Fifth Aliyah, commissioned by The Tourist Development Association of Palestine, and is considered the most famous work by Kraus.
It seems that the poster offered here is not the final version of the poster - printed with some differences in colors and in a different size from the size mentioned in the catalogue “Franz Kraus: Posters” (catalogue of an exhibition in the Tel-Aviv Museum. Curator: David Tartakover. Tel-Aviv, 1981).
57X88.5 cm. Good condition. Numerous creases. Slight damages and tears at margins.
Rare and Important Items
Rare and Important Items