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Selnau 7777
Charles Kuhn
Eidg Schutzenfest a shooting festival in Zurich
Fridolin Muller
oskar schlemmer und die abstrakte buhne
Fridolin Muller
XX Nationale Kunstausstellung Lucern
Hans Erni
Atomkrieg Nein ref: The Swiss Poster page252
Hans Erni
Seiden Greider ref: The Swiss Poster page 183
Hans Erni
mehr anbauen oder hungern? ref: The Swiss Poster page 129
Hans Erni
Erni Exhibition poster Geneve
Hans Erni
Int. Musikalische Festwochen Luzern
Hans Erni
Intern Musikalische Festwochen Luzern
Hans Erni
La Guilds Du Livre
Hans Erni
Parcourez La Terre Helvetique Avec L'abonnement De Vacances
Hans Erni
Austellung in Der Buchergilde Gutenberg Zurich
Hans Erni
Kunstmuseum & Gewerbe Museum Winterthur
Hans Erni
Reiner Empfang Durch Telephonrundswruch
Hans Erni
Cinematheque Suisse
Hans Erni
Bresil Neuchatel Musee d'Ethnographie
Hans Erni
nona triennale di milano 1951
Ernst Scheidegger
Poster by Fronzoni for the Fontana Galleria Genova 1966
A G Fronzoni
Sapere e Poterie
A G Fronzoni
Das bad a two sheet poster done for an exhibition in Zurich in 1937
Herbert Matter
arte e ee scienza shows reflection from flash
A G Fronzoni
Poster for la Biennale di Venezia
A G Fronzoni
Angelo Guiseppe Bertolio picture shows reflection from flash
A G Fronzoni
Marchio Progetti picture shows reflection from flash
A G Fronzoni
Rubare a Mu-lien picture shows reflection from flash
A G Fronzoni
cicio di conferenze
A G Fronzoni
Teatro del Falcone
A G Fronzoni
Anti war poster signed by hand. ref: Images of an Era the American Poster 1945-75 National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution Washington page 116
Paul Rand
Dada originally done for a 1951 book cover this poster is signed and dated 1973 by hand by Paul Rand and dedicated to a colleague
Paul Rand
Success and Resources of 20thCentury Design The International Design Conference in Aspen Signed by hand by Rand and dedicated to a colleague ref: The Modern American Poster The Museum of Modern Art no. 99
Paul Rand
pevsner vantongerloo bill slightly faded with small tears to right margin
max bill
Futurismo an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich 1950 Restored centre bottom backed on japon paper
Max Bill
Industrieware von Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Fridolin Muller
A poster for an exhibition of work by hn werkmann at the kunstgewerbe museum in1966
Fridolin Muller
fur das alter reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 119 The Swiss Poster Margadant page 131 no. 165
Fridolin Muller
Helft Brande verhuten reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 47
Heini Fischer-Corso
Chinesische Steinabklatsche 1944 reference Ernst Keller Exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum 1976 page89 reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 87
Ernst Keller
Strauli Sport reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 51
Leo Gantenbein
An exhibition of Glas at the Helmhaus Zurich 1956 reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 65 Swiss Graphic Design page 190
Carl Bernhard Graf
A poster done for the 1969 exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum Basel showing furniture by Thonet ref: The Swiss Poster Margadant page 200 no 383
Kurt Hauert
100 Jahre Eisenbeton two sheet poster small loss to lettering in Austellung centre bottom ref: The Swiss Poster Margadant page 144 no 214
Richard Lohse
Il gluoco e fatto Teatro di Genova
A G Fronzoni
25 Ruderregatta
Martin
Nein
Ernst Keller
Citroen 1 Preis
Karl Gerstner
Oskar Schlemmer
Bruno Monguzzi
Jelmoli beige
Ernst Keller
Jelmoli green
Ernst Keller
Alt Romanische Portrat Plastik
Alfred Willimann
Jelmoli orange
Ernst Keller
American Overseas Airlines
Lewitt Him
Poster for an exhibition by Mavignier hand signed
Almir Mavignier
Zero hand signed by Mavignier
Almir Mavignier
Jecklin the 1950 version
Otto Baumberger
Die Lithographie In Der Schweiz
Werner Bischof
Austellung Bibliothek Sammlung
Armin Hofmann
For the Stadt Theatre
Armin Hofmann
UCLA Winter 1990 signed by hand.
Paul Rand
UCLA Summer 1993
Paul Rand
Das Schweizer Plakat
Wolfgang Weingart
Schreibkunst
Wolfgang Weingart
Wien
Niklaus Stoecklin
Bech Electronic reference 100+3 Schweizer Plakat page 60
Karl Gerstner
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dc7c panair do brasil The Brazilian artist and sculptor Mary Vieira studied first in Brazil and later in Zurich. She did few posters but the ones she did are rare and follow her concrete principals. ref: Swiss Graphic Design page 175 ref: The Swiss poster page 175
Mary Vieira
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Bouchez an early 1918 poster by Loupot for mens fashion ref: Loupot page 46 number 24
Charles Loupot
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Poster for 5000 years of Lettering held at the Gewerbemuseum Basel in 1936. reference Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis page 95
Theo Ballmer
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Stalin and Red Army Parade RESERVED
Deni and Dolgarukov
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Poster for Tokyo Communication Arts 1990
Paul Rand
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Tribune De Lausanne a variation from the 1955 design which shows the Tribune's new font and layout for 1962. This version is in the collection of MOMA where they mistakenly attribute it to 1955.
Herbert Leupin
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El Lissitzky
Almir Mavignier
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American Overseas Airlines
Lewitt Him
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herbert Matter studied painting at the Ecolle des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and theAcadamie Moderne in Paris. He worked with Leger, Cassandre, Ozenfant and Corbusier. This cubist poster for PKZ may have been his first poster His later photomontage posters are amongst the best of the period. He moved to the States in 1936 was professor of photography at Yale he was a design consultant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship in New York and also at the Museum of fine arts in Houstan. He died in 1984
Herbert Matter
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For the Basler Theatre 1968. Signed by hand.
Armin Hofmann
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tanzstudio wulft basel For a dance studio notice of postponement of a ballet by Satie and Picabia
Max Bill
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Tell is Armin Hofmann's most famous poster and one which he won the Swiss poster prize in 1963.
Armin Hofmann
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Grafa International ref: The 20th Century Poster Design of the Avant-Garde page 176 Swiss Graphic Design page 67
Hermann Eidenbenz
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A rare Cassandre poster for the Italia- Cosulich Lloyd Triestino company. Originally the fleet of ships sailed from Trieste to Palermo, Messina, New York, Naples South America and New Orleans.
Cassandre
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Wahlt Liste 4 an election for the Social Democratic party in 1935. Keller joined the Swiss Werkbund in 1915 and taught at the Kunstgewerbe School in Zurich, he is considered the most influential figure in Swiss graphic design ref: The 20th Century Poster Design of the Avant-Garde page 176 History of the Poster page 178
Ernst Keller
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Exceptionally rare poster by Bill showing the Swiss Werkbunds demonstration of Modern Architecture and Modern living with furniture supplied by wohnbedarf. See the Swiss Poster by Richard Hollis page 54.
max bill
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This famous design has been signed in pen by Rand and dedicated to a colleague
Paul Rand
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Tansstudio Wulff films d'avant garde et d'avant guerre
Max Bill
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Join Our Struggle Vote Communist List 4 Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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pevsner vantongerloo bill - linocut
max bill
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An exceptionally rare poster from Schwitters who is best known for his Merz collages. One other known copy see catalogue raisonne of Schwitters typographical work no. 99
kurt schwitters
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1st. Grand Premio Bergamo a 1958 poster by Max Huber for a festival of art films and films about art,
Max Huber
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For the 1931 Art Exhibition in Switzerland Kulagina shows the USSR in construction. Kulagina met her future husband Gustav Klutsis a teacher at Vkhutemas when she enrolled as a student. The school was conceived explicitly as 'a specialized educational institution for advanced artistic and technical training, created to train highly qualified master artists for industry. It was a centre for three major movements in avant garde art and architecture: constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism. Kulagina and Klutsis worked closely together on photomontages she also did exceptional posters incorporating photography such as the International Women Workers Day and Women Workers Strenghen the Shock Brigades. ref: Margadant 57 Kunst and Propaganda 87 Klutsis/Kulagina 139
Valentina Kulagina
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Paul Poiret in Wien
Rosenbaum
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Pelican Ink - an exceptionally rare work, one of only three known, relating to Lissitzky's
Lissitzky
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Winter in Davos
Burkhard Mangold
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Triplex
A.M.Cassandre
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Zoologischer Garten reference DFP 111 1408 Hohlwein Stutgart 68
Ludwig Hohlwein
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Theo Ballmer studied at the bauhaus before returning to Basel to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts School where he remained for some 30 years Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150. The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
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usa baut. Poster for an exhibition of modern American architecture by ex bauhaus student Max Bill. Bill's many talents had him excel in painting, sculpture, teaching, architecture, and is thought of as Switzerland's finest designer ref: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann Swiss graphic design by Richard Hollis Cold war modern design Victoria and Albert exhibition
Max Bill
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Zeitprobleme- Problems of our time in Swiss painting and sculpture exhibition. reference Swiss Graphic Design Richard Hollis The History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann The Swiss poster by Margadant
Max Bil
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Winter Sales reference plate 7 E. McKnight Kauffer a Designer and His Public
E.McKnight Kauffer
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Etoile Du Nord. One of Cassandre's finest designs in backed on linen. Reference: A.M. Cassandre by Henri Mouron plate 11- The Modern Poster. Museum of Modern Art page 150- Posters Design of the Avant-Garde collection Merrill Berman page 158
A.M. Cassandre
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Brasilien Baut-Brazil Builds a poster by the Brasilian artist Matia Viera for an exhibition of architecture,prints and Viera's sculpture. Reference: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann page 190. Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis page 174
Maria Viera
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Konkrete Kunst an important exhibition including works by Arp. Bill, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian, Vantongerloo. Bill was very busy promoting the
Max Bill
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5 Fingers has the Hand. Heartfield's most famous poster. Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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160 Million in the East March Joyfully into the Future. Because of the nature of Heartfield's work vehemently criticising the National Socialist Party and Hitler, possession of it became very dangerous and very few examples have survived. Born Helmut Herzfield in Berlin in 1891, he changed his name to John Heartfield in 1916 as a criticism of the anti- British sentiment in Germany during the first World War. Together with George Grosz he was a member of the Berlin Dada group and the German Communist party. During the First World War Heartfield contributed work to Die Neue Jugend, an arts journal published by his brother Wieland Herzefelde. During this period Heartfield together with George Grosz claimed to have invented photomontage as indeed did Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Hoch. He went on to do some powerful satirical work for AIZ with savage and humorous attacks on Hitler and the National Socialists. So strong were his photomontages he had to flee Germany escaping arrest by the Gestapo in 1933 and relocated to Prague where he continued work for AIZ now located there. In 1937 Germany threatened to break off relations with Czechoslovakia unless an exhibition of Heartfield's photomontage was closed down. He was stripped of his German nationality and escaped to London where he remained until 1950 before returning to East Germany where he became a professor at the German Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1960. He died in Berlin in 1968..
John Heartfield
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Amongst Matter's finest photomontages rare.
Herbert Matter
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Bal DE La Couture One of the finest Deco images of the 20's advertising a fashion ball at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees. Reference Timeless Images 127 Art Deco page 620
George Lepape
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The new Earls Court Exhibition Centre designed by the American architect C.Howard Crane opened in 1937 amongst the first events was the Motor Show for which Kauffer produced this rare photomontage. reference; E. Mcknight Kauffer a designer and his public by Mark Haworth-Booth plate 53
E. McKnight Kauffer
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A travelling exhibition of the Deutschen Werkbundes by the ex bauhaus student Theo Ballmer who went on to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts school where he remained for some 30 years. Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150. The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
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Reference:The 20th-Century Poster. Design of the Avant-Garde page 173. Word and Image page 84
J.S. Anderson
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Reference Graphic Design/Mechanical Age page 109
E. McKnight Kauffer
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Unsere Wohnung
Richard Lohse
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New Statendam
A.M.Cassandre
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Manoli
Lucian Bernhard
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Bureau
Theo Ballmer
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Meta
Niklaus Stoecklin
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arte astratta e concreta. The exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan was organised by Huber along with Max Bill and the architects Lanfranco Bombellii Tiravanti, Elena Berrone and Franca Helg. Huber exhibited at the exhibition along with Kandinsky, Arp, Klee, Bill with other exhibitors shown on the poster.
Max Huber
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Allianz poster for the Association of Modern Swiss Artists
Max Bill
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sos kinderdorf
A G Fronzoni
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