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Item Type: Poster
Year: c.1930 - 96 years old
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Size: 50.0" x 74.0" (127cm x 188cm)
Condition:
Wer noch nicht Autofahren kann... Besuch’ die Schule Lattermann. “Whoever still cannot drive... attend the Lattermann school.”
This 1930 poster belongs to a fascinating moment in interwar European advertising, when the automobile had become both a practical technology and a cultural symbol of modern life. Driving schools emerged alongside the rapid normalization of private motor travel, and their posters often borrowed the visual language of fashion, industry, and progressive urban culture to position motoring as part of a new social order. In that context, this piece is especially compelling for the way it aligns driver education with female mobility, suggesting how closely the motorcar had become tied to new ideas of independence and public presence for women in the late Weimar period.
It also sits comfortably within the broader design currents of the era, when commercial posters in German speaking Europe favored clarity, authority, and streamlined presentation over the dense ornamental language of an earlier generation. By 1930, advertising had become a field where modern typography, metropolitan aspiration, and social change met on the street. As a result, this poster works not only as automotive ephemera, but as a document of shifting modern identity, one that places women within the expanding visual culture of speed, instruction, and self determination.
Size: 74.0" x 50.0"
Condition: Very Good, Age-appropriate wear, fading and toning. Two sheets assembled with 1" joining strip. Age toning in center. Areas of repaired border tears. Small color touch ups. Faint scuffs. Please use the photo zoom feature to get a better understanding of overall condition. *Additional photos available upon request.
Age-appropriate wear, fading and toning. Two sheets assembled with 1" joining strip. Age toning in center. Areas of repaired border tears. Small color touch ups. Faint scuffs. Please use the photo zoom feature to get a better understanding of overall condition. *Additional photos available upon request.
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