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Auction History Result 4d0475 HAMBURG AMERICA LINE linen 24x34 German travel poster 1930s Arpke art of of Mediterranean women! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Travel Poster (measures 23 3/4" x 33 1/2" [60 x 85 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: Otto Arpke Important Added Info: Note that this poster is promoting cruises to the Mediterranean and the Orient, and features Otto Arpke artwork of two Mediterranean women with a ship anchored near a coastal town in the background. Otto Arpke was a German painter, illustrator and commercial artist from the interwar period. He gained fame through the design of posters for the film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, posters for HAPAG, and the North German Lloyd, as well as the wall decorations of the Zeppelins Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin II and the prospectus for the Berlin Olympics in 1936. From 1939 to 1941, Arpke had contact with a Berlin resistance group, for whom he, together with his pupil Hollmann and his pupil Ursula Bobrowski, printed and distributed leaflets against the Nazi regime conspiratorially using the printing presses of the technical college. He and his wife Ruth took Jewish friends into their household at times and helped a Jewish friend to flee abroad. Nonetheless, Arpke continued to accept major orders from state institutions, such as the interior fittings for the Zeppelins LZ-129 and LZ-130. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had some partial horizontal folds in the bottom of the image and a few others in the image. It had a few tears in the borders, including a 3" one in the upper right border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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