Unfortunately not going to make it to Pittsburgh this year Bill.Low on funds.
Here is a 1922 Karl Ritter bookplate with graphic artist remark. Thought you might enjoy due to your trade.
Same theme as the cliche indian thinking a soul would be captured if photographed imo.
Image measures 6"x4" (Quarter for scale).
If I have the right artist, heres a few facts about Ritter's life courtesy of Annex Galleries Ca.-
Born on November 7, 1888 in Wurzburg.
Embarked on a military career before studying architecture in Munich.
Turning to the graphic arts and painting, he became involved in the film industry through his employment as a public relation agent for Sudfilm in 1926.
Owing to his early membership in the Nazi party, Ritter’s film career progressed quickly following his signing a contract with Ufa in 1933.
His first film as a producer was “Hitlerjunge Quex” (Hitler Youth Quex, 1933), one of the first films of the era to openly glorify the Nazi party.
He was appointed to Ufa board of directors and went on to make “Weiberregement” in 1936, “Capriccio” in 1938, “Patrioten, 1937 and “Stukas” in 1940/41, the story of a young bomber pilot whose depression and apathy was cured by Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” He also did a number of blatant anti French, Russian and British propaganda films.
Taken prisoner by the Soviets but escaped and in 1949 he emigrated to Argentina where Winifred Wagner helped him establish a film production company.
