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Auction History Result 1w0030 HEXENSABBAT 33x47 German special poster 1933 great Roman Feldmeyer art of masked witch, rare! Date Sold 3/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded German Special Poster (measures 33" x 47" [84 x 119 cm]) (Learn More) Hexensabbat (literally translates to "Witches' Sabbath"), the 1933 German annual art festival featuring works by local artists. Note that this poster features wild art by Roman Feldmeyer. Note that this series of carnivals (one was held annually in Munich) was a uniquely German phenomenon that began in the 1400s. It involved Pagan rituals and many of the early participants were strongly anti-Semitic, portraying Jews as Devil worshipers. The festivals continued over the centuries and when Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany, he banned all expressionist and "modern" art as "decadent", but oddly, he allowed the Hexensabbat carnivals, and the posters created for them, to continue (perhaps this related to the years he lived in Munich as a young man, including when he was in prison near the city, when he wrote "Mein Kampf", and perhaps he did not have a philosophical difference with the Hexensabbat)! There were posters created for many of these festivals, but they are extremely rare! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Roman Feldmeyer Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster from a Hexensabbat event. In all our years of auctioning, we had only previously auctioned five different posters from one of these events, and the earliest one is this poster which is from 1933. Posters from this time period are extremely scarce, due to the massive paper shortages in Germany during World War II. Many of these posters are for specific events that were held, and naturally, those posters would figure to be even more rare, since they could only have been used prior to the date of the event. This extremely rare poster auctioned in 2017 and sold for $825, and now that very same poster has been reconsigned to us for this auction, so it is still the only example of this poster we have ever auctioned! Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. Someone put some tape on the back of the entire right border where there had been a few small tears, and that tape has bled through to the front, but only in the blank border. But overall, the poster has survived in pretty nice condition, and its defects are primarily in the blank borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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