Lot 33: POSTER: ALEXANDER BARANOWSKY (1874-1941) GROSSE-KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG DRESDEN. 1908. 36x23 inches. Oswald Enterlein Kunstanstalt, Niedersedlitz.

ALEXANDER BARANOWSKY (1874-1941) GROSSE-KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG DRESDEN. 1908.
36x23 3/8 inches. Oswald Enterlein Kunstanstalt, Niedersedlitz.
Condition B+: restored bottom right corner, affecting text; repaired minor tears in margins.
Baranowsky was a professor at the Decorative Arts School in Dresden as well as working in local theatre. This is one of only two posters he is known to have designed. Advertising an art exhibition, it is an unusually sexy image at a time when German art cherished innocent allegories. The ravishing blonde, nude with the exception of her necklace representing the coat-of-arms of Sachsen, is holding a sprig in each hand. She is seated against an ornately patterned background, and draped in an equally opulent, colorful and modern textile, yet the disinterested look on her face is discordant with the luxury of her surroundings. The classic typography is grouped at the bottom of the poster. Wember 10, DFP III 38.

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