Tracing of the course taken by the flame light in Olympia for the first time to Berlin. Stamp of the Reichsbahnzentrale für den Deutschen Reiseverkehr. Signed (Lenz, maybe Maximilian Lenz, a Vienna-born artist who worked in Germany in the 1930s). Caption : "Olympia Fackel-Staffel-Lauf 1936". In a cardboard mount with the caption "1936 Berlin Olympics. The Olympic torch Relay Course. A German sports scholar, Carl DIEM devised the idea of the Olympic Torch Relay. On this poster, a magnifying glass is placed at the start, OLYMPIA, for indicating that the sacred flame is collected from sunlignt using a concavec mirror".

paper

multi coloured, black and white, yellow, beige

40.8 x 27.5 cm