LOIS GAIGG (1905-1944)
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NORTH GERMAN LLOYD BREMEN / LLOYD EXPRESS. 1929.
33
1
/
4
x24 inches, 84
1
/
2
x61 cm. J.F. Tapley Co., Long Island City, NY.
Condition B+ / B: restored losses in upper left corner and in top margin, neither affecting image;
overpainting along repaired tears in image.
The sister ships
Bremen
and
Europa
were launched in 1929 and 1930 respectively. The
Columbus
,
launched in 1924, was retrofitted in 1929 with shorter funnels, making her closer in appearance to
the two other ships. Gaigg, who worked with Joseph Binder, won a poster competition with this design
in 1929, the results of which were published in
Gebrauchsgraphik
magazine. This poster exists in a
larger, German language version and with several different text variations. Note that this English
language variant was printed in New York. Passenger Ships 79 (var), Schipp & Affiche 25 (var).
[2,000/3,000]
