Kurt Wirth

Trans Europ Express – Original Poster promoting the service from Zurich to Milan

1961

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's famous – and revolutionary – Villa Savoye, c...

A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's second series for General Dynamics, promoting its nuclear research. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as Art Director – a Swiss (1908 – 1998) educated at the Collège Classique in his birth town Lausanne and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. 1934 he emigrated to the United States and became an incredibly versatile graphic designer whose work became exemplary modernist. General Dynamics for its part focused on – amongst others – aerodynamics, aerospace, electronics and nuclear power. So here the company had a problem: Only a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki it wasn’t exactly the simplest thing to explore nuclear energy and not to be suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. The International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 in Geneva was a great opportunity to be seen as a provider of peaceful technology. The guys in charge chose Erik Nitsche to communicate this message. He created four poster series. Atoms for Peace was the first consisting of eleven posters. The second was made for the Conference 1958; these posters are titled Exploring the Universe and represent different aspects of technological research. The third series promoted General Dynamics’ departments. The last series of six smaller posters...

Original Vintage Swiss Avantgarde Poster created in 1933 by Walter Herdeg (1908 – 1995) and printed in 1934 by the Art. Institut Orell Füssli in Zurich as an intaglio to promote the ...

Original Swiss Travel Poster promoting St. Moritz as winter destination, featuring Germaine Aussey, then a famous French actress. Created by Walter Herdeg who – together with Herber...

The Cathedral is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is ...

Figure is a Vintage Offset Print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is excelle...

Wandering monks in the courtyard of Konoura is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige II (1826 – 1869) in the 1840s. Good impression with reduced palette mainly in...

Naples, from the villa Falconnet is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lowe...