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General Dynamics, Convair 880, World's Fastest Jetliner – Original Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's third series for General Dynamics, promoting its Convair Company.
Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
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Paper
Norwich – The Cathedral Route Original Vintage British Travel Poster
By Frank Newbould
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Travel Poster by Frank Newbould, commissioned by LNER (The London & North Eastern Railway of England & Scotland) to promote its connection to Norwich; beautifully pr...
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Early 20th Century English School Landscape Prints
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Paper
Rolex Submariner – Swiss Original Vintage Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Poster promoting Rolex' Submariner, reference 1680, created by Celestino Piatti, a very productive Swiss Graphic Designer (1922-2007) known for his charm and subtle humor, p...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
Modern Art at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven – Original Vintage Dutch Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster in bright and crisp colors by the Dutch graphic design legend Wim Crouwel, advertising rather the museum's collection of works by...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
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Paper
Expo 1970 World Exhibition in Osaka – Original Vintage Japanese Poster
By Yusaku Kamekura
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Event Poster created 1967 by one of the best known Japanese graphic artists, Yusaku Kamekura; in 1960 he was a founding member, then ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
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Paper
Sandeman Porto & Sherry – Iconic Original Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
The Don: One of the most recognizable figures in poster history ever, quietly reveling in the simple delights of a glass of ruby port – typically thought of as a horseman, clad in a ...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
Werkbund – Original Swiss Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Swiss Exhibition poster by Hermann Eidenbenz (lithograph, printed by Art. Institut Grafica in Basel) advertising a show of the Basel section ...
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1930s Modern Abstract Prints
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Paper
Œuvre Plastique, Kunsthaus Zürich 1938 – lithograph, hand-signed and denoted
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
Le Corbusier's first (and largest) original lithograph in color. He created the poster on the occasion of his (first) solo exhibition.
Print run was 100 ex. only – whereby the largest part was destroyed when used in the streets of Zurich, what makes it LCs most rare lithograph in color.
Moreover: This exemplar is even hand-signed by LC and dated, as it was (meant to be) sold at the entrance of the Kunsthaus Zürich...
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1930s Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
Bouteilles – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
Together with "Les Musiciennes" one of the largest and most sought after lithographs by Le Corbusier – a purist still-life –, printed by Mourlot on Arches after a collage by LC.
Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
St. Moritz – Original Swiss Winter Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
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...
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1930s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper
Italian Design 1945 till today – Original Vintage Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original poster designed by Pierre Mendell (1929 – 2008) & Klaus Oberer (*1937) promoting an exhibition 1988 at Die Neue Sammlung in Munich on "Italian ...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
Scandinavia by SAS – Original Vintage Airline Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Airline Poster by the Danish illustrator Otto Nielsen (1916 – 2000). He created several designs commissioned by the S...
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Mid-20th Century Animal Prints
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Paper
Le Corbusier, "La ricerza paziente" – Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster, issued 1980 on the occasion of the exhibition in Lugano named after Le Corbusier's famous dictum "creation is a patient sea...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
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Paper
Rolex Oyster – Original Vintage Swiss Product Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Swiss Rolex Poster issued 1942 or 1943 promoting Rolex' "Error Proof Radium dials" that were patented 1942. This is Rolex' first poster; it gaine...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Paper
Trans Europ Express – Original Poster promoting the service from Zurich to Milan
By Kurt Wirth
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Swiss Vintage Travel Poster promoting the TEE service linking Zurich and Milano (operated 1961 to 1988) by Kurt Wirth, a notable Swiss graphic designer and co-founder of the Swiss Graphic Designers Association. A great modernist design evoking speed and reliability.
The international first-class railway service of Trans Europ Express...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
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Paper
Kunsthalle Bern ("Hopeless", Roy Lichtenstein) – Original Exhibition Poster
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster (screenprint by Albin Uldry, Bern) on the occasion of Lichtenstein's show 1968 at the Kunsthalle Bern, curated...
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Mid-20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
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Paper
General Dynamics, Exhibition Dynamic America, New York – Original Vintage Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 in the newly renovated General Dynamics Building (formerly the Time-Life Building) at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. The background to this poster is GD's division Stromberg-Carlson, a telecommunications equipment and electronics manufacturing company, founded 1895 in Chicago and acquired 1955 by General Dynamics (resold 1982). The two Swedish Immigrants started to improve Graham Bell...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Prints
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Paper
General Dynamics, Exhibition Dynamic America, New York; Original Vintage Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements.
Pictured is William Woodnut Griscom, an American inventor who founded the Electro Dynamic Company in 1880, based in Philadelphia. Griscom patented the world's first double induction motor, and his electric drive powered the the first trolley system in Washington D. C. In 1899 Electro Dynamic became Electric Boat...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
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Paper
General Dynamics, Exhibition Dynamic America, New York – Original Vintage Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster by Erik Nitsche advertising General Dynamics' exhibition "Dynamic America" held 1961 at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York where the company promoted its achievements. The background to this poster is the launch 1897 of the "Holland", United States Navy's first submarine, by the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Company, predecessor of Electric Boat...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Prints
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Paper
General Dynamics, Exploring the Universe, Sub-Atomic Worlds – Original Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
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Paper
Les Musiciennes – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
Together with "Bouteilles" one of the largest and most sought after lithographs by Le Corbusier, printed by Mourlot on Arches after a collage by LC....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
Great Architecture for the Sixties – Pier Luigi Nervi's Exposition Hall in Turin
By Walter Allner
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster depicting Piero Luigi Nervi's International Labor Exposition Hall in Turin, published 1962 by the magazine Architectural Forum to p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Prints
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Paper
Original Exhibition Poster – Le Corbusier's difficult relation to Switzerland
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's difficult relation with his native country, using a photograph taken 193...
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints
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Paper
BOAC Speedbird Routes Across the World – Original Vintage British Airline Poster
By Harold Foster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Airline Poster by Harold Foster. He created several designs commissioned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation ...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Prints
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Paper
Original Vintage Secession Poster celebrating the emperor's jubilee
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Ludwig Graf, a member of the Hagenbund. This Viennese artist association moved as soon a...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
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Paper
General Dynamics, Atom Reactor Triga around the World – Original Vintage Poster
By Erik Nitsche
Located in Zurich, CH
A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's third series for General Dynamics, promoting the reactor Triga of its General Atomic division.
Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as A...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
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Paper
Alvar Aalto – Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster, issued 1983 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of the exhibition of Alvar Aalto's architectural work that first was shown in Finland at the Museum of Finnish Architecture...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Interior Prints
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Paper
Fly to Bermuda by BOAC – Original Vintage British Airline Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Airline Poster commissioned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation promoting its service to the British Territory in the Atlantic ...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints
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Paper
Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye 1929 – Original Swiss Vintage Exhibition Poster
Located in Zurich, CH
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...
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints
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Paper
Portrait – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
LCs Portrait is one of several lithographs that were – on Le Corbusier's explicit wish – published by Heidi Weber simultaneously hand-signed and numbered a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper
Great Architecture for the Sixties – La Tourette by Le Corbusier
By Walter Allner
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster depicting Le Corbusier's Convent of La Tourette, published 1962 by the Architectural Forum to promote Modern Architecture –...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Prints
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Paper
Great Architecture for the Sixties – TWAs Terminal Building by Eero Saarinen
By Walter Allner
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Poster depicting Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, published 1962 by the magazine Architectural Forum to promote Modern Architecture – one of...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Prints
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Paper
