JOSEPH ADOLPH LANG (1873-1936)

DÜSSELDORF / INTERNATIONALE KUNST UND GARTENBAU AUSSTELLUNG. 1904.

36½x24¾ inches, 92¾x63 cm. A. Bagel, Dusseldorf.
Condition B+: replaced upper left corner; small losses, replaced losses and minor skinning in margins; repaired tears at edges, some into image; minor creases in text and image.

Vienna-born Lang worked in Düsseldorf between 1900 and 1911. For this Art and Landscape Design Show, his only recorded poster, he provides two stylish, elegant but muted allegories on either side of the empty red center of the poster. 'Art' is represented as a sensuous woman holding a flower, and 'Landscape Design', as a decorative interpretation of a tree. The Jugendstil sophistication of the image is a far cry from the exuberant vegetal exaggerations of the French Art Nouveau artists. This is the German version. DFP-III 1943 (var).