Circus Busch | An act that put the devil in daredevil

Circus Busch

Circus Busch Lucifers Teufelssprung. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, [1903] (no. 2791)

Color lithograph poster (27 1/2 x 37 1/8 in.; 700 x 943 mm). Vertical fold creases, some marginal finger-soiling. Matted and glazed with Plexiglas.

A brilliant poster depicting a rollerblade jumping act at Circus Busch. Clearly inspired by Nordic ski jumping, which had been a competitive discipline for less than four decades, Lucifers Teufelssprung was so harrowing that it employed both the terms Lucifer and Devil in its title.