Carl Pavelka

Carl Pavelka was born in 1906 in Horgen, Zurich. He was trained as an advertising artist at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) as a student of Otto Baumberger, among others. He then worked, among other things, as a cartoon animator, book illustrator and stage designer and mainly as an industrial designer for Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC) in Baden. During his free time he painted landscapes, creating hundreds of drawings and paintings in pencil, oil and watercolour. Pavelka died in Zurich in 1991.

Posters by Carl Pavelka