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Auction History Result 2j045 HAMBURG AMERICA LINE linen 34x47 German travel poster 1930s Anton art of Atlantic Islands! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Travel Poster (measures 33 1/2" x 46 3/4" [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 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. Also, note that this poster has among the finest art that we have ever seen on a travel poster (note the sky and sea with the ship in between). The winner of this auction will have a wonderful and extremely rare poster to display on their wall! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The thin right blank border had been trimmed off, but the poster was otherwise unfolded and in really nice condition prior to linenbacking. The person who restored it recreated the missing blank border and the poster displays fantastically! Learn More about condition grades 
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