These are simply the best posters available! You will be thrilled with the image quality, vivid colors, fine paper, and unique subjects. This is a unique remastered image, transformed into a beautiful poster.
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This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from a vintage 1937 poster advertising Gregg Skis, painted by famed poster illustrator-graphic designer, Sascha Maurer.
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
The 13"x19” and 24”x36” formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or grouped as a visual statement. The 24”x36” size has a 1” white border. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
GREGG SKIS AND ARTIST SASCHA MAURER
GREGG SKIS
Henry S. Gregg was president in 1906 of the Minneapolis Iron Store Company, which owned Park Manufacturing and Gregg Manufacturing companies. Park and Gregg started out making wooden farm implements. Gregg began making wooden skis for the Dartmouth Cooperative Society in Hanover, NH in 1919. Henry Gregg's son John Gregg became vice-president of Gregg Manufacturing in about 1926. Demand grew into the 1930s and Gregg Skis was one of the three major suppliers of skis for the 10th Mtn. Div. during WW2. Gregg also made toboggans.
In 1953, when the Northland/Lund Ski factory burned to the ground in North St. Paul, MN, Christian Lund promptly bought Gregg Ski Manufacturing, so that he could continue to make skis. Within three weeks from his own factory burning, he started making skis again in the existing Gregg factory in St. Paul. As of 1954, Gregg Manufacturing was no longer in business.
Harry Holmberg worked as a ski engineer and designer for Gregg skis in St. Paul. Harry's brother, Hartvig “Hart” Holmberg, opened a carpentry shop in St. Paul, MN in 1943. Harry called upon Hartvig’s manufacturing skills and together they began working on a prototype, metal-edged ski. After three years of creating and refining, Hartvig, Harry and friend Ed Bjork were ready. In 1955 the first "Hart" metal-edged ski was introduced. Source: Skiing Heritage Magazine
ARTIST SASCHA MAURER
Sascha Maurer (1897-1961) was a famed poster illustrator-graphic designer, and watercolor artist. The son of an artist, Maurer was born in Germany, in 1897. He studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts, both in Munich. His works are highly collectable, and his original works are often very expensive. From 1953 to 1958, Maurer was a major contributor to the The Ford Times magazine, a free magazine given to everyone who purchased a Ford automobile.
During World War I, Maurer served in the German Navy, and after the war, he migrated to Brazil, where he learned lithography and became a talented muralist. He moved to the US in 1925, and worked as a commercial artist. In the 1930's and 1940's he began using his unique style to create ski posters that were influenced by his childhood in the Bavarian Alps. Maurer understood the sport of skiing, and his ski art caught the attention of advertisers at the New Haven Railroad. His work for the railroad brought him a whole new clientele - the travel/railroad/airline industry.
Maurer’s graphic illustrations and artistic watercolors have wide crossover appeal among art collectors and devotees. His watercolors were popular magazine illustrations. Maurer also created images of popular motels in summer locations, that were used for postcards and advertisements, making you wish that you were there.
