Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
"Help Build 'Kfar HaMaccabi'" - Poster Designed by Franz Kraus, 1930s
Opening: $1,800
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
"Maccabi! Ten Yad LeBinyan 'Kfar HaMaccabi' al Admat Hakeren Hakayemet LeIsrael!" [Hebrew: Maccabi - Help Build 'Kfar HaMaccabi' on JNF Land]. Illustrated poster. "Beit Haroshet 'Manir' Sendler and Berson, Bnei Brak" press / "'Aharon' Advertisement Tel-Aviv", [ca. 1935]. Design: Franz Kraus (signed in the plate).
In the foreground appears the image of a man wearing a white undershirt with the "Maccabi" emblem, lifting a house.
The poster calls for donations to buy land for the establishment of Kibbutz Kfar HaMaccabi. The initiative to establish the kibbutz came from several "Maccabi HaTza'ir" members from Germany and Czechoslovakia (supported and assisted by Menachem Ussishkin who, during the first Maccabia, in 1932, raised the idea of Maccabia participants building a settlement in Palestine). The JNF entrusted "Maccabi" World Union with raising the funds to purchase land for the kibbutz. The kibbutz was established in 1936 in Zevulun valley, near Kiryat Ata.
50.5X70 cm. Overall good condition. Folding marks and creases. Some stains. Tears at margins (some are small open tears). Several open tears at folding marks and around them, slightly affecting the illustration. Two pieces of adhesive tape on the reverse, at lower margins. Slight peelings on the reverse, at the corners.
In the foreground appears the image of a man wearing a white undershirt with the "Maccabi" emblem, lifting a house.
The poster calls for donations to buy land for the establishment of Kibbutz Kfar HaMaccabi. The initiative to establish the kibbutz came from several "Maccabi HaTza'ir" members from Germany and Czechoslovakia (supported and assisted by Menachem Ussishkin who, during the first Maccabia, in 1932, raised the idea of Maccabia participants building a settlement in Palestine). The JNF entrusted "Maccabi" World Union with raising the funds to purchase land for the kibbutz. The kibbutz was established in 1936 in Zevulun valley, near Kiryat Ata.
50.5X70 cm. Overall good condition. Folding marks and creases. Some stains. Tears at margins (some are small open tears). Several open tears at folding marks and around them, slightly affecting the illustration. Two pieces of adhesive tape on the reverse, at lower margins. Slight peelings on the reverse, at the corners.