Ascona – Ticino – All-Season Health Resort
Artist: Otto Ernst
Year: 1934
Size: 100 x 70 cm / 39.4 x 27.6″
About this poster
There can hardly be another Art Deco advertisement for Ascona quite like this colourful poster designed by Otto Ernst in 1934. It features the promenade along the shore of Lake Maggiore and evokes a feeling of “dolce far niente” in the sunny south of Ticino. A decorative and perfectly lithographed rarity.
Artist: Otto Ernst
Otto ERNST was born in 1884 in he Swiss canton of Aargau. After his apprenticeship as a graphic designer, he studied in Florence and in Paris where in 1910 he became a student of Eugène Grasset at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He worked both in the printing industry and as a freelance painter and graphic designer and travelled extensively throughout Europe, capturing his impressions in his paintings. Er... more
Otto ERNST was born in 1884 in he Swiss canton of Aargau. After his apprenticeship as a graphic designer, he studied in Florence and in Paris where in 1910 h ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 2295
- Artist:
- Company: Verkehrsverein Ascona, CH
- Brand:Ascona, Ticino, CH
- Printer: Trüb-Druck, Aarau
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- Size: 100 x 70 cm / 39.4 x 27.6″
- Printing technique:Stone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A-/L
Very good condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free linen. - Category:
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- Publications:Manifesti sul Ticino
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