Sonns, F.L.
Sonns, F.L.
SONNS, F.L. Aphrodite// Circus Busch. Hamburg Lith. Adolf Friedländer 1932 Chromolith., vellum paper 70,5 x 94,5 cm; signed in the plate (folds with the central horizontal fold sl. discoloured and rubbed). Underlaid with thin Japan paper. Many posters by various artists were published for this German itinerant circus, one of Germany’s (and Europe’s) most important travelling circuses in the 1930's. This one, probably for a specific cabaret spectacle, represents a large classical head of Aphrodite and 3 other characters including a woman and a red devil. Ref. Stadtmuseum Berlin. Sammlung Online.
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Sonns, F.L.
SONNS, F.L. Aphrodite// Circus Busch. Hamburg Lith. Adolf Friedländer 1932 Chromolith., vellum paper 70,5 x 94,5 cm; signed in the plate (folds with the central horizontal fold sl. discoloured and rubbed). Underlaid with thin Japan paper. Many posters by various artists were published for this German itinerant circus, one of Germany’s (and Europe’s) most important travelling circuses in the 1930's. This one, probably for a specific cabaret spectacle, represents a large classical head of Aphrodite and 3 other characters including a woman and a red devil. Ref. Stadtmuseum Berlin. Sammlung Online.