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LUDWIG HOHLWEIN (1874-1949)
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MÜNCHENER RENN - VEREIN. 1910.
38
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2
x26
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2
inches, 92
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4
x67
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4
cm. Joh. Roth, Munich.
Condition B: extensive overpainting, sharp creases and restoration in margins and image and along vertical
and horizontal folds; restored losses in margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Horseback riding was one of Hohlwein’s passions. Amongst his earliest and most successful poster
commissions were images for the Hermann Scherrer store (one featuring a woman on a horse, the
other a man with a saddle), and the subject of his first portfolio was horse racing (
Turf
, 1909): “All
who know men and horses have a high regard for Hohlwein’s rendering of them. It is this peculiar
combination of realism and advertising power that gives these posters their remarkable distinction”
(Frenzel p. 40). It was on the basis of this equine affection that the year following
Turf
he was asked
to advertise the Munich races. He depicts three galloping horses charging towards the viewer as brown
masses against a patterned green background, with the white of the rider’s breeches bringing light into
the image. The dynamic composition is augmented by the brush-stroke style technique that Hohlwein
uses. DFP-III 1367, Hohlwein / Stuttgart 42, Hohlwein / Munich, p. 134.
[4,000/6,000]