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Auction History Result 3j0800 BAUER HILF DIE STADTE HUNGERN linen 29x37 German special poster 1919 Jaeckel farmer art, rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked German Special Poster (measures 28 1/2" x 37 1/4" [72 x 95 cm]) (Learn More) Bauer Hilf, Die Stadte Hungern (literally translates to "Farmer Help, The Cities are Starving"), the 1919 German post-World War I (WWI) poster created to encourage farmers to help feed people in urban areas, and featuring Willy Jaeckel art of a man plowing his field with a city and the sun in the distance. Of course, defeated Germany emerged from World War I in dire financial condition, and there were massive shortages of food at that time. Note that this poster also features a quote from Faust, the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The quote translates to "The pots are full of gold weight - Pull your plow and raise it to the light!" Artist: Willy Jaeckel Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this poster, and that poster has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had darkened somewhat. It was folded and had minor wear on the folds and some small tears in the borders, with a 4" vertical tear in the left of the top border, going through the right edge of the "B", and some tiny paper loss in the lower left corner of the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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