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(DEGENERATE ART SHOW)
Suite of 5 rare, real photo Third Reich postcards of modernist artworks in a later iteration of the
Nazi exhibition “Entartete Kunst,” which was displayed in Berlin; with an original broadside
promoting this “austfellung,” plus 5 photographs of Julius Lippert, the State Commissioner of Berlin,
at the show’s opening on March 3, 1938. The images of the mayor are ferrotyped silver prints,
5
1
/
4
x7
1
/
4
inches (13.3x18.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso, each with a handwritten
caption (in German); the image area of the postcards measures 5
1
/
4
x3
1
/
4
inches (13.3x8.3 cm.), and
the reverse, printed on Agfa paper stock, 2 with captions in the negative; 4 are unused. 1938
[4,000/6,000]
The postcards were apparently shot and published by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s chief photographer,
and include:
1.Artworks and signage “Nehmen sie Dada Ernst”
2.A modernist sculpture of Christ by Prof. Gies
3.A painting entitled “Mother and Daughter” by artist Jankel Adler
4. Signage on the front of the building at Galeriestrasse 4
5.An uncredited painting entitled “Kriegskruerrel.”
The first show of Degenerate Art opened in Munich, in June 1937, and attracted more than 1,000,000
visitors in the first 6 weeks. Later exhibitions were mounted in Berlin, Leipzig, Dusseldorf,Vienna, and
Salzburg, attracting similar numbers of visitors. In these shows the price museums had paid for paintings or
sculpture (interestingly, without adjusting for the overinflated currency ofWeimar Germany) was also displayed.
“Degenerate art” was defined as works that were viewed by Nazis as anti-nationalistic and injurious
of the National Socialist’s firm anti-Semitic agenda.
132
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(CRIME—ALCATRAZ)
Pair of mugshots of the most famous criminals
to escape from Alcatraz, including Ralph Roe
and Theodore Cole, who successfully made
their escape in 1937; and a Wanted by the FBI
Poster for Clarence Anglin, the third man to
escape from the prison (in 1962). Silver prints,
3x3
3
/
4
inches (7.6x9.5 cm.), each with typewritten
caption information, on the original Office of
the Chief of Police, Hall of Justice, San
Francisco, California mimeographed sheets,
dated December 17, 1937. 1937; 1962
[600/900]
WITH
—
Gardner, Roy. Hellcatraz, The Rock of
Despair. Illustrated. 8vo, photo-pictorial wrappers,
worn. First edition, signed by Gardner. Np, nd.
AND
—
Mug shot diptych of Alvin Karpis (a.k.a.
George Haller), the longest serving inmate at
Alcatraz. Silver print, 3x5 inches (7.6x12.7 cm.),
with caption information on verso. 1930s.
From the Collection of John Binder.
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Lot 133