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Auction History Result 4j039 HAMBURG AMERICA LINE 34x47 German travel poster 1930s Anton art of Atlantic Islands! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded German Travel Poster (measures 33 1/2" x 47" [85 x 119 cm]) (Learn More) The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG for short and referred to in English as Hamburg America Line or Hamburg-American Line) was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, Germany in 1847. It soon developed into the largest German (and at times the world's largest) shipping company, serving the market created by the German immigration to the United States and later immigration from Eastern Europe. In 1970, after 123 years of independent existence, HAPAG merged with the Bremen-based North German Lloyd to form Hapag-Lloyd AG. Artist: Ottomar Anton Important Added Info: Note that in 2018, we auctioned an example of this wonderful poster, and it auctioned for $1,361! This is only the second time we have auctioned this rare poster! Note that this poster is promoting Christmas and New Year's trips to the Atlantic Islands (such as The Azores or Madeira) aboard "the largest German motor ship, 'Milwaukee'", and features Ottomar Anton art. Ottomar was a German painter, graphic artist and university professor from the 1920s to the 1970s. He designed many travel posters (he was the most prolific German shipping poster artist in the 1920s and 1930s). He joined the SS in 1936 and created World War II (WWII) Nazi propaganda art. He was incarcerated after the war, but later became a sought after graphic designer again. Condition: very good. The poster was once folded down the middle, but there are no horizontal folds. It has two small tears near the middle of the top border, with creases between them in the very top of the blue background. It has tiny pinholes in the corners and also in the top of the background area. It has a few tiny tears in the left and right borders, with a few faint smudges and tiny stains in the borders. Someone once performed slight touch up to the four pinholes and the crease in the very top of the background area, but otherwise made no attempt at restoration, and the poster has been stored rolled for many years. It certainly can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or one could choose to have restoration performed to the above slight defects. Either way, the new owner of this poster will have a wonderful and rare poster to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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