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Fernet Branca ..the best digestif…
Artist: Peter Birkhäuser
Year: 1943
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
About this poster
An object poster masterpiece by the Basle Artist Birkhauser who created this most stunning for the Italian Brandy Company FERNET BRANCA. Digestifs are served in this kind of glass for its quantity. Again this object poster is especially suited to the lithograph printing technique, where brilliant color and richness in textures could be achieved to make an object or a product look real. The Basel poster designers had a passion for this style, perhaps because it appealed to their love of precision, but also because the message could be understood by everyone - not a simple task in a country with four national languages.
Artist: Peter Birkhäuser
Peter BIRKHÄUSER was born in Basel in 1911 and died there in 1976. He studied at the Basel School of Design and apprenticed in the studio of Niklaus Stoecklin before setting out on his own as a poster designer. In 1934 he designed a poster for PKZ (featuring a large button) that became famous and earned him a deserved and lasting legacy within the poster world. His best designs are meticulous reflections of the S... more
Peter BIRKHÄUSER was born in Basel in 1911 and died there in 1976. He studied at the Basel School of Design and apprenticed in the studio of Niklaus Stoeckl ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 2377
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- Company: Fratelli Branca, Mailand, IT
- Printer: Fiedler SA, La Chaux-de-Fonds
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- Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in coloursStone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
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Very good condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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