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Auction History Result 1h0040 FESTBALL DES DEUTSCHEN JAGDMUSEUMS linen 47x68 German festival poster 1939 Klein art, rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Festival Poster (measures 47" x 67 1/2" [119 x 171 cm]) (Learn More) Festball des Deutschen Jagdmuseums (literally translates to "Festival of the German Hunting Museum"), the 1939 German poster promoting a ball which was held on February 11th at the Deutschen Theater in Munich, Germany. Note that this poster features Richard Klein art of a nude Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, holding a bow with the silhouette of a stag behind her. Hermann Goring had tried to prevent the construction of the museum and boycotted the opening event because he had plans to create his own hunting museum in Berlin. The museum was lost during World War II (WWII) while most of the objects survived in a nearby castle and were moved in 1958 to the present location, the medieval Augustine Church in Munich. Hunting as a symbol of the powerful is undisputed. Already in antiquity and the Middle Ages, elites staged themselves with the characteristics of hunters. National Socialism in particular discovered nature and animal protection as a propaganda tool. Nature, homeland and the German forest became popular elements of the Volkisch Nazi ideology. Richard Klein was a German artist, known for his work as a medallist from the start of World War I (WWI) in 1914, and mainly for his work as a favoured artist of the Nazi regime. Klein was director of the Munich School of Applied Arts and was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite painters. Klein was one of the artists exhibited at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung (Great German Art Exhibition) held at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1937, meant as a contrast to the modern art condemned by the Third Reich as degenerate art (entartete Kunst). Klein's work at the exhibition included plaques contributed from Hitler's private collection. The poster for the exhibition, Das Erwachen (The Awakening), was designed by Klein and also used as the front cover for the Nazi art periodical Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich (Art in the Third Reich). Klein also designed Nazi awards and decorations. These included, the Sudetenland Medal, Anschluss Medal, and Memel Medal, collectively known as the German Occupation Medals, plus the War Merit Medal and the Wehrmacht Long Service Award. Munich (the Bavarian capital) used to be a festival/carnival 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richard Klein Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this German poster! It features art of the Greek goddess Artemis, who is topless, with the silhouette of a stag, and this is the kind of art that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis praised and glorified! We saw that many years ago an example of this poster sold for $3,000, and we could find no more recent sales of it. Also note that this poster contains nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual poster does not have those white bars! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was printed in two sections, and each section was unfolded. There were small tears and tiny paper loss at the area where the two sections join, and some faint smudges and scuffs scattered in the solid background areas and in the white background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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