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Auction History Result 2j188 HAMBURG SUD linen 28x39 German travel poster 1930s Ottomar Anton art of Cap Arcona ship! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Travel Poster (measures 28 1/4" x 39 1/4" [72 x 100 cm]) (Learn More) Hamburg Sudamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft (which translates to "Hamburg South American Steamship Company"; Hamburg Sud for short) is a German shipping (and former passenger) company that was founded in 1871 by a conglomerate of 11 Hamburg-based merchant houses. By 1914, the company was operating over 50 ships but lost them all during World War I (WWI). The company currently ranks among the ten largest container shipping brands worldwide. Artist: Ottomar Anton Important Added Info: Note that this poster is promoting travel to South America aboard the Cap Arcona ocean liner. The Cap Arcona was considered one of the most beautiful passenger liners of her time. In 1940 the Kriegsmarine (the navy of Nazi Germany) requisitioned her as an accommodation ship (for use as a temporary barracks for sailors or other military personnel). In 1942 she served as the set for the German propaganda feature film Titanic, and in 1945 she evacuated almost 26,000 German soldiers and civilians from East Prussia before the advance of the Red Army. Cap Arcona's final use was as a prison ship, and in May of 1945 she was heavily laden with prisoners from Nazi concentration camps when Britain's Royal Air Force sank her, killing about 5,000 people (with more than 2,000 further casualties in the sinking of the accompanying vessels of the prison fleet). This was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life in World War II (WWII). Also, Ottomar Anton was a German painter, graphic artist and university professor from the 1920s to the 1970s. He designed many travel posters (he was the most prolific German shipping poster artist in the 1920s and 1930s). He joined the SS in 1936 and created World War II (WWII) Nazi propaganda art. He was incarcerated after the war, but later became a sought after graphic designer again. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was never folded, but it had a faint vertical crease down the left one-third of the poster. It had 1/2" trimmed from the right blank border. Otherwise, the poster was in nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and the restorer replaced the portion of the missing blank right border. Learn More about condition grades 
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