Houdini, Harry (Erik Weisz) | Houdini again encounters the German police

Houdini, Harry (Erik Weisz)

Circus Busch Houdini. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1912 (no. 5789)

Color lithograph poster (28 x 37 3/4 in.; 710 x 958 mm). Fold creases with separation, repair, and some overpainting, stains from residue of adhesive tape from early, artless restoration, ink stamp of Erdwin Schirmer’s Welt-Artisten Archiv in lower margin. Laid down on linen.

"Houdini was the greatest publicist and advertiser of his day. This Friedländer lithograph was struck for Houdini's 1912 appearance at Berlin's famous Circus Busch. A different version of the poster was used earlier, and a similar image was later to appear on a tin of chocolates" (Circus). 

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 50; Magic, p. 23