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Auction History Result 1h0036 ARGONAUTEN-FEST linen 34x48 German special poster 1930s art of snake & clown, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Special Poster (measures 33 1/2" x 47 1/2" [85 x 121 cm]) (Learn More) Argonauten-Fest (literally translates to "Argonaut Fest"), the 1930s German poster (with a tagline that translates to "literary parodies") promoting an event with took place on February 8th in Munich, Germany. Note that this poster features Ernst Penzoldt art of a snake with an apple in it's mouth, coiled around a clown. Ernst Penzoldt was a German author, sculptor, caricaturist and painter. From 1949 he was the general secretary of the West German section of the PEN club. In 1924 he founded (together with other eminent writers) the literature society The Argonauts. The Argonauts in Greek mythology were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. The Argonauts also was a German monthly literature magazine between 1914 and 1921, which featured a Goethe poem on its frontispiece about this classical myth. The Cherubin location mentioned is a still existing ballroom of the Hotel Four Seasons in Munich. The revenue from these large and popular carnival events helped to finance the influential literary society. Also, note that the term "Literarisches Parodies" is a wordplay (through spelling error) between literary paradise and parodies. Artist: Ernst Penzoldt Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned an example of this German poster! Also note that the poster has an artist's signature on it, but we cannot read it. If anyone knows the name of this artist, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had darkening and some small staining down the right side, with a few minor areas of slight darkening in the rest of the light background. 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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