Germany, NSDAP. A Signed and Framed Photo of the Munich Beer Hall Putsch Leaders

(Bierkeller-Putsch Foto mit Unterschriften). A rare signed print of Heinrich Hoffmann’s famous 1 April 1924 photo showing the leaders of the Munich Beer Hall Putsch heading to trial, featuring the handwritten signatures of eight of the nine subjects in clear black ink, including (from right to left) Friedrich Weber, Wilhelm Frick (later-Third Reich Minister of the Interior), Hermann Kriebel, General Erich Ludendorff, AH (in a civilian suit and coat), Wilhelm Brückner (later AH Chief Adjutant and SA-Obergruppenführer), Ernst Röhm (subsequent SA-Stabschef), and Robert Wagner (later Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter), set within a period wooden frame featuring intact double-sided glass faces, the reverse revealing a a stamped Hoffmann studio mark indicating an official photographer’s reprint, the top edge of the frame riveted with a magnetic metal suspension loop, the image measuring 224 mm (w) x 160 mm (h), the frame measuring 332 mm (w) x 270 mm (h), retrieved from the estate of of the unsigned subject, Heinz Bernet (later SA-Brigadeführer and the stepson of General Erich Ludendorff), an exceptional dedicated memento of a key event in the rise to power of the NSDAP in extremely fine condition.