around 1900. 20,5 x 40 cm. Vintage poster. Paper, lithography. armin Sternberg and his brother founded their instrument factory in 1881, which became one of the most prominent factorie of the kind in the interwar period. Besides instruments, they manufactured radios, gramophones and vinyl records. The company was a leading propagator of jazz music, distributed songbooks among local bands, and their paper, the Sternberg News had the same purpose. This was the first Hungarian jazz magazine. The company was nationalized after 1945.
This composition had been used for poster, advertisement and slip probably for more decades. The decorative covering of the street name, that is, the old name of the street is hidden under a pattern, also suggests that. Kerepesi street was renamed in 1906, when the ashes of Francis II Rakoczi, who died in the Ottoman Empire, were taken home, and were transported on this road from Keleti Railway Station to the Basilica. That's why the ornamented overprint hides the old name 'Kerepesi ut' while the new address sends customers to Rakoczi street 60. It means that the poster was printed before 1906, and the overprint indicates that it had been in use for a long time.
The composition is archaic and decorative: the figures who are playing music are wearing Hungarian style clothing are the heirs of the 19th century folksy genre painting.

Near mint.