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Auction History Result 4j214 MEERESLEUCHTEN linen 34x49 German special poster 1912 Wirnhier art of naked child riding fish! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Special Poster (measures 34 1/4" x 49 1/4" [87 x 125 cm]) (Learn More) Meeresleuchten (literally translates to "Shining/Glowing Sea"), the 1912 German poster promoting a festival (with the theme of "a feast in the sunken wonderland of Atlantis") which was held at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, Germany. Note that this poster features art of a child riding a fish. The title is referring to the "Milky seas effect" (mareel), which is a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater appear to glow brightly enough at night to be seen by satellites orbiting Earth. Carnival was originally a pagan festival, later it has become associated with the catholic church and was celebrated on the day before the beginning of Lent. The Bavarian capital with its rich catholic-baroque tradition of exuberant sensuality used to be a carnival (in Bavaria - Fasching) stronghold from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century until well into the 1930s, and it is in fact alive and kicking today. In 1914 alone, there were 533 masked balls and 145 black and white balls. This phenomenon of decadent hustle and bustle was created in particular by the artists of the Schwabinger Boheme, at first in the form of wild studio festivals, but increasingly also by artists' balls. The balls of the artists' company "Allotria", organized by the "painter princes" Franz von Lenbach, Franz von Stuck and Friedrich August von Kaulbach in the Art Nouveau Kunstlerhaus built in 1900 on Lenbachplatz, were absolutely gigantic. Another highlight was the "Arcadia Festival" of 1913, which attracted over 2,000 carnival fans, some of which had arrived from as far away as St. Petersburg. Artist: Friedrich Wirnhier Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some smudging in the bottom credits area, which is surely a printing defect, and it had some light brown staining across the bottom, and a lesser amount around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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