Leviathan toy ocean liner
Contemporary Realism
1927
47.0 x 106.0 cm
Gebrüder Bing produced a variety of richly detailed clock-work toy ships and submarines. This example is painted in the livery of the United States Line’s flagship Leviathan. Measuring more than 800 feet long, the real liner was originally built in Germany as the Vaterland. Launched in the international race to dominate transatlantic trade, the crack liner had the misfortune of being docked in Hoboken, New Jersey when World War I was declared. Impounded by the United States, the ship was renamed and repurposed as a troop carrier. After the war the United States kept Leviathan as compensation for wartime losses. Unperturbed, Bing, a German company, made this big toy for U.S. families and so kept its American name.
Gebrüder Bing (1863 – 1933)
Gebrüder Bing prägten den deutschen Modellbahnbau und beeinflussten Künstler wie Trübner und Marc durch ihre außergewöhnliche Detailtreue und ihren Fokus auf Realismus – eine einzigartige Verbindung zwischen Spielzeug und Kunstgeschichte!
Über dieses Kunstwerk
- Titel: Leviathan toy ocean liner
- Künstler: Gebrüder Bing
- Jahr: 1927
- Originalmaße: 47.0 x 106.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Schöpferische Phase: Early Period
- Farbpalette: Pastels
- Schlagworte: luxury toy model ship , detailed toy ship art , gebrüder bing artwork
- Farbton: Amber to Saffron