Original Antique Poster Danny Gurtler Munchner Hof Cabaret Artist Munich Theatre

Original antique film poster for a movie - Der Geheimnisvolle Club / The Mysterious Club - based on the 1896 book "The Suicide Club" written by Ro...

Original vintage German advertising poster for the Munich Fasching Lent Carnival at the Cherubin on 7-8 January 1928 featuring a colourful illustrat...

Original antique men's fashion and clothing advertising poster for Hermann Scherrer Breeches maker Sporting Tailor Munchen Neuhauser Strasse 32. Great artwork by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) featuring a man carrying a saddle and a horse whip...

Original vintage book advertising poster for the German novel The Big Lump - The Satire of our Time / Spanihel Der Grosse Lump - Die Satire unserer Zeit written by Hermann Wagner and...

Fantastic photolithograph poster hand painted by Adolf Franz Munzer (German 1870-1953). The original Bal-Pare Deutsches theater poster is painted over ...

Very rare original vintage 1st printing poster by Otto Linnemann in 1913. Wettstreit Deutscher Männer Gesangvereine. This Jugendstil "Wettstreit Deutscher Männer Gesangvereine" post...

Original Swedish Movie poster for the American 1917 Comedy. The Artwork is by Eric Rohman (1891-1949) Eric Rohman was a pioneer in poster design....

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...