Palace Hotel St. Moritz 6000 ft.
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Year: 1921
Size: 127.5 x 90 cm / 50.2 x 35.4″
About this poster
Emil Cardinaux was the greatest Swiss travel poster artist who creaated many beautiful and unique poster lithographies for tourism resorts, like this is one of three classics he created for the famous resort St. Moritz, representing a great impressionistic scene of a golfing party on the Samedan Golf within the impressive alpine panorama of the Engadine. Cardinaux had a special talent for landscapes that could easily pass for fine paintings; he never lost the painterly touch in all his graphic work which is clearly shown in all his resorts posters for Zermatt, St. Moritz or the Engadine.
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.: 1880
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- Company: Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, CH
- Brand:ST. MORITZ - GRISONS, CH
- Printer: Graphische Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger AG, Zürich, CH
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- Size: 127.5 x 90 cm / 50.2 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Stone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A/J
Excellent condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:Graubünden im Plakat - Tourismuswerbung 1890 bis heute
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