Vintage - Distraction on the Ice,

Vintage artwork by Arthur Thiele depicts a comical scene on a frozen lake where ice skaters are shocked and scurrying out of the way when a young man pushing a sled with an older couple on it is distracted by two pretty skaters. He crashes the sled right into a pole. He's so busy acting like a dandy and trying to get the attention of the women that he doesn't even see the pole. The German artist, Carl Robert Arthur Thiele (1860-1936) commonly went by the name Arthur Thiele. He was an illustrator of books, sheet music and postcards. He was famous for his comical anthropomorphic animals dressed in clothing and depicted in human-like scenes. Dachshunds were a favourite subject of his. In addition to animals, other subjects he illustrated were sports postcards, vegetables brought to life, snowmen, bathing beauties, and WW1 era propaganda postcards. The Internet is full of references confusing Carl Robert Arthur Thiele with another German painter of his time named Julius Arthur Thiele who painted landscapes. They are not the same artist. This card is blank inside for your own message.