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Jungfrau Railway – Switzerland
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Year: 1928
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
About this poster
This magnificient poster - detailed designed like a watercolor painting - in 1928 by Emil Cardinaux for the Jungfrau-Bahn shows a group of people or a group of tourist touring on the top of a the big glacier the Jungfrau overlooking the majestic landscape which is laid out in front of them showing a giant Swiss flag. Climbing up the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland's Bernese Alps, the Jungfrau Railway was begun in 1898 and finished in 1912. It reaches 11,330 feet, making it the highest spot in Europe accessible by train.
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Emil CARDINAUX (1877 Bern 1936)
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Swiss art scene underwent thorough transformation. The central figure in this development was the painter Ferdinand Hodler. He was the first among Swiss artists who dared to radically be himself. Even though Hodler never took on students, the art world soon coined the term “Hodlerians” for a small group of Bernese artists. What the... more
Emil CARDINAUX (1877 Bern 1936)
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Swiss art scene underwent thorough transformation. The central figure in this ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 3724
- Artist:
- Company: Jungfraubahnen, Interlaken, CH
- Brand:Jungfrau-Bahn, CH
- 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:
B-/J
Reasonably fair condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and tears possible. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:Paradis à vendre - Un siècle d‘affiches touristiques suisses
Reihe Schweizer Plakatgestalter 2 - Emil Cardinaux 1877 - 1936
