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Alfred Bradler (Austrian) Cars and Red Cross Chess Set
Alfred Bradler (Austrian) Cars and Red Cross Chess Set
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Cars and Red Cross Chess Set, circa 1982
Plastic and Metal
Alfred Bradler (Austrian/ b. 1942)

Each King in an open coupe Jaguar, Queens alternately in an XJ6 and XJ12 Jaguar, Bishops are Porsche cars, Knights comprised of Fiat Fiorino, Red-Cross Towers are Fiat 242s, White and Red Pawns are alternately VW land and dune buggies. Bradler, a designer and artist, created this set for the Jaegers as a conceptual and functional art work assembled from toy cars he collected in the late 1970s and early 80s.

King is 5.5 cm and Pawn 4.2 cm long

Exhibited: Munich, Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde,1988

Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde (founded 1862) is now the Museum Funf Kontinente (Five Continents Museum, Munich, Germany).

Literature:
Schachspiele Wandel Im Laufe Der Kunst Und Kulturgeschichte (Chess: Art History and Culture), Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen, 1988, set 93, text page 122.

Provenance: Jaeger Collection
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Alfred Bradler (Austrian) Cars and Red Cross Chess Set

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