(Rohrl, Hans) | The Living Hydrant

(Rohrl, Hans)

Circus Busch. Der lebende Hydrant. Hamburg: Lith Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1921 (no. 7070) 

Color lithograph poster (27 3/4 x 37 1/2 in.; 705 x 954 mm). Light fold creases. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.

Hans Rohrl was one of the twentieth century's greatest practitioners of water spouting, an act dating to at least the seventeenth century that involves the consumption and expulsion of vast quantities of liquid. Rohrl, appropriately costumed here as a fireman, was able to spout water a distance of more than fourteen feet in a spray some six feet wide.

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LP&FW, p. 299 & color plate