Grotrian Steinweg/Braunschweig

Artist Ludwig Hohlwein Germany, 1874 - 1949

Printer Herman Sonntag & Co., Munich

Date1934

MediumStone Lithograph

Dimensions31 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (80 x 52.7 cm)

ClassificationsPoster

Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection

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Object numberPH.5725

DescriptionThis composition by Ludwig Hohlwein, like quite a few of those he made during the Nazi era, appears to be based partly on a photographic image, and again asserts a realism that the designer rejected in his earlier work. The poster promotes the historic German pianos made by the Grotrian-Steinweg company, founded by Heinrich Steinweg in Braunschweig in 1835 (he became Henry Steinway after his emigration to New York in 1850, where he founded Steinway & Sons). The image highlights both an old German product and the great German tradition of classical music; the Fraktur script that accompanies it was frequently employed by the regime.

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