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Swiss Alpine Postal Motor Coaches
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Year: 1922
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
Price:
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About this poster
What an impressive, beautiful, rare and highly collectible Art Deco poster! It is detailed, designed by Emil Cardinaux like a watercolour paining and printed in stone lithography technique for the Swiss Alpine Postal Motor Coaches crossing the Swiss Alps. Cardinaux was the master of Swiss travel posters and is still considered to be one of the most important artists for Alpine posters in the world.
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.: 3722
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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
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:Der Kluge reist im Zuge - Hundert Jahre SBB
Reihe Schweizer Plakatgestalter 2 - Emil Cardinaux 1877 - 1936 - Price:
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