Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung. 1909.
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Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung. 1909.
“As an important commercial, industrial, financial and publishing center whose annual fairs achieved world renown, Frankfurt am Main was a logical site for Germany’s first aeronautical exposition. The show was held at a time when the novelty of flying had seized the imagination of the public and aroused much interest in the possibilities of future travel by air. Orville Wright, in the summer of 1909, had come to Berlin under the auspices of the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger to demonstrate his biplane before Kaiser Wilhelm II and to give Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm a ride. The Crown Prince was the first member of the Royal Family to fly. That same year, Hans Grade, a pioneer of flight who had succeeded in making a hop on a triplane in 1908, gave a historic first to Germany by carrying the world’s earliest recorded piece of airmail... Pictured in the poster is Frankfurt’s red sandstone Dom, or cathedral... In the foreground is a Voisin biplane, probably reflecting the impression Frenchman Armand Zipfel made in this type craft... the twenty-six-year-old aviator was acclaimed as the first to ascend in an aeroplane in Germany. The air-ship betokens a German obsession with Zeppelins” (Looping the Loop, p. 37). Rare!
Size: 23 3/8 x 35 1/4 in./60 x 89.6 cm
Condition: B/ Slight creasing.
Printer: Kunstanstalt Wüsten, Frankfurt
Reference: Looping the Loop, 23; Airline Artistry, p. 28; Takashimaya, 125; PAI-XXXVII, A33
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Aviation; German
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Price: $3120 (starting bid + 20% buyer’s premium)
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Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung. 1909.
“As an important commercial, industrial, financial and publishing center whose annual fairs achieved world renown, Frankfurt am Main was a logical site for Germany’s first aeronautical exposition. The show was held at a time when the novelty of flying had seized the imagination of the public and aroused much interest in the possibilities of future travel by air. Orville Wright, in the summer of 1909, had come to Berlin under the auspices of the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger to demonstrate his biplane before Kaiser Wilhelm II and to give Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm a ride. The Crown Prince was the first member of the Royal Family to fly. That same year, Hans Grade, a pioneer of flight who had succeeded in making a hop on a triplane in 1908, gave a historic first to Germany by carrying the world’s earliest recorded piece of airmail... Pictured in the poster is Frankfurt’s red sandstone Dom, or cathedral... In the foreground is a Voisin biplane, probably reflecting the impression Frenchman Armand Zipfel made in this type craft... the twenty-six-year-old aviator was acclaimed as the first to ascend in an aeroplane in Germany. The air-ship betokens a German obsession with Zeppelins” (Looping the Loop, p. 37). Rare!
Size: 23 3/8 x 35 1/4 in./60 x 89.6 cm
Condition: B/ Slight creasing.
Printer: Kunstanstalt Wüsten, Frankfurt
Reference: Looping the Loop, 23; Airline Artistry, p. 28; Takashimaya, 125; PAI-XXXVII, A33
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Aviation; German
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