Gessner, Ingeborg (sold)
Ingeborg Gessner (1904 - 1970), born Klatte, was a German artist and industrial designer based in Düsseldorf. She was the second wife (1930) of the German avant-garde painter Richard Gessner (1894 - 1989), who co-founded the Young Rhineland (Das Junge Rheinland) artist collective. She is alternately known as Inge Klatte, Inge Klatte-Gessner, and Ingeborg Klatte. Little else is known of her life.
A most stunning manuscript pictorial map by German female artist illustrating the cacao trade.
Geschichte des Kakos.
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This is an utterly stunning c. 1955 unpublished manuscript pictorial map of the world illustrating the history of the cacao trade. The map was drawn by the female graphic designer Ingeborg Gessner (Inge Klatte) for the Stuttgart chocolate company, Eszet (1857 - 1974). It illustrates the world on a loose Mercator projection stylized to conform to German mid-century aesthetics. The map is rich with vignette images illustrating different phases in the history of cacao and phases of cacao harvesting and production. Color coding distinguishes sources of Cacao in South America, Africa, and Australasia. Vignette images along the bottom border trace the development of the cacao trade from its first Europeans exposure when Hernan Cortez arrived at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, to its introduction to the Spanish court, and indigenous use. Copious annotation in German expounds on cacao throughout. (more details)