Electric Cogwheel train Rorschach
Artist: Wilhelm Friedrich Burger
Year: 1922
Size: 100 x 70 cm / 39.4 x 27.6″
About this poster
The lovely landscapes between Lake Constance and the Appenzellerland present a picture-book image of Switzerland. In summer, the meadows and forests are a lush green, and on winter evenings it is utterly romantic to ride through the rolling hills covered in snow. The sensitive painter Wilhelm F. Burger captured the special mood of this landscape in his poster from 1922.
Artist: Wilhelm Friedrich Burger
Wilhelm Friedrich Burger was born in Zurich in 1882. He apprenticed as a lithographer and then studied at the Zurich school of arts and crafts and at the academy in Karlsruhe. In the first decade of the 20th century he worked as a graphic designer in London, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. In 1913 he settled in Rüschlikon on Lake Zurich. Burger was a specialist for landscape posters and famous for his beautifu... more
Wilhelm Friedrich Burger was born in Zurich in 1882. He apprenticed as a lithographer and then studied at the Zurich school of arts and crafts and at the aca ...