Aufgalopp. ca. 1937.
Artist: LUDWIG LUTZ EHRENBERGER (1878-1950)
Size: 46 1/8 x 67 in./118.2 x 170.3 cm
Condition: B+/ Slight tears along folds.
Printer: Herm. Sonntag, München
Reference: Ref: PAI-LXXVIII, 277
Key Words: Art Deco; Animals; German; Jewish Interest; Carnival
Aufgalopp. ca. 1937.
Undoubtedly, we've got a party—champagne corks pop, confetti explodes, and a horse-riding performer flies high above it all—but this is actually a sanitized version of the annual Carnival horse racing party in Munich. Christian Weber, city council chairman and Nazi conspirator, created the Brown Ribbon (a popular horse race in Reim) and the Munich-Reim racing club, as well as this event at Munich's largest vaudeville hall. Journalist Edward Pope attended and wrote, "Picture... the cellar of the Metropolitan [Opera House in New York] as a maze of beer halls, chambres-séparées and necking laboratories, where beer, champagne, kisses, hot dogs, re- and pro-creation mingle in gay abandon... Add a buxom contralto from the Munich State Opera, a nude ballet of clumsy former milkmaids and shopgirls (unshaven), a Turkish striptease artiste that Christian himself salvaged specially for the occasion from Paris... Reim stable fans, local Nazi brass hats, reckless Munich students, and all kinds of women from Christian's mistresses to blond Hitler Girl Leaders..." Truly, there is more than meets the eye at this rambunctious affair.
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Artist: LUDWIG LUTZ EHRENBERGER (1878-1950)
Size: 46 1/8 x 67 in./118.2 x 170.3 cm
Condition: B+/ Slight tears along folds.
Printer: Herm. Sonntag, München
Reference: Ref: PAI-LXXVIII, 277
Key Words: Art Deco; Animals; German; Jewish Interest; Carnival
Aufgalopp. ca. 1937.
Undoubtedly, we've got a party—champagne corks pop, confetti explodes, and a horse-riding performer flies high above it all—but this is actually a sanitized version of the annual Carnival horse racing party in Munich. Christian Weber, city council chairman and Nazi conspirator, created the Brown Ribbon (a popular horse race in Reim) and the Munich-Reim racing club, as well as this event at Munich's largest vaudeville hall. Journalist Edward Pope attended and wrote, "Picture... the cellar of the Metropolitan [Opera House in New York] as a maze of beer halls, chambres-séparées and necking laboratories, where beer, champagne, kisses, hot dogs, re- and pro-creation mingle in gay abandon... Add a buxom contralto from the Munich State Opera, a nude ballet of clumsy former milkmaids and shopgirls (unshaven), a Turkish striptease artiste that Christian himself salvaged specially for the occasion from Paris... Reim stable fans, local Nazi brass hats, reckless Munich students, and all kinds of women from Christian's mistresses to blond Hitler Girl Leaders..." Truly, there is more than meets the eye at this rambunctious affair.
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