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Post Buses in the Swiss Alps
Artist: Niklaus Stoecklin
Year: 1925
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
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up to CHF10000 / EUR 10000 / USD 10000 (recommended price)
About this poster
An extraordinary, rare and highly collectible poster printed by Wolfensberger in lithograph technique and designed in 1925 by the famous poster artist Niklaus Stoecklin. It promoted the Swiss Alpine Postal Motor Coaches, showing the Gotthard massif with the “Tremola” - the south side of the Gotthard Pass. It belongs to the rare still existing icons by the famous artist of „New Objectivity”.
Artist: Niklaus Stoecklin
Niklaus STOECKLIN was born in Basel in 1896 and died in 1982.
Stoecklin’s first teacher in Basel was Burkhard Mangold who heavily influenced his style. He studied at the Basel School of Arts and Craft and created his first ‘object poster’ in 1922. He then studied the modern graphic style in Munich and became influenced by Ludwig Hohlwein and the Purist style of the great Swiss architect and designer L... more
Niklaus STOECKLIN was born in Basel in 1896 and died in 1982.
Stoecklin’s first teacher in Basel was Burkhard Mangold who heavily influenced his sty ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 2423
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- Company: PTT Schweizerische Post, Bern, CH
- Brand:PTT - POSTAUTO - Postbus - Swiss Postal Coaches
- Printer: Graphische Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger AG, Zürich, CH
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- Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Stone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A-/J
Very good condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:Die Alpen auf Plakaten
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