Description
Artist: Friese
Location: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Zugspitz, Bavaria, Germany
Date: 1930 (approx)
Condition: A-
Original Size: 102 x 64 cm / 40 x 25 inches
Original Price: £SOLD – PRINT AVAILABLE
Ref: 68
Zugspitz, German Alps
From: £150.00 to £165.00
Lithograph in colours, 1930 (approx), printed by Selle & Co A.G., Berlin.
A classic, magnificently art deco piece of 1930’s poster art depicting a birds-eye view of the German Alps and, in particular, the Zugspitz, the tallest mountain in Germany. In the foreground can be seen the separate pre-war villages (as they then were) of Garmisch and Partenkirchen, now home to the famous World Cup downhill ski event in January each year. In the lower margin the poster reads
