Women’s voting rights – NO

Artist: Donald Brun
Year: 1946
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″

About this poster

With this design, the famous Basel poster designer Donald Brun took up a central argument against women's suffrage in 1946: the fear that children would be neglected. The poster was created in the context of the June 1946 referendum on the introduction of women's suffrage at cantonal level in Basel-Stadt – it was to be rejected for the third time since 1920. Twenty years later, in 1966 and at the fifth attempt, Basel-Stadt became the first canton in German-speaking Switzerland to introduce women's suffrage.

Artist: Donald Brun

Donald BRUN was born in 1909 in Basel and died in Clarens in 1999. After his apprenticeship as a publicity illustrator, he attended several art classes in Basel and Berlin. From 1933 he worked as a freelance artist for many important companies in Switzerland. He was a founding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

Donald Brun designed a large number of remarkable posters, mainly for consume... more

Donald BRUN was born in 1909 in Basel and died in Clarens in 1999. After his apprenticeship as a publicity illustrator, he attended several art classes in Ba ...

sel and Berlin. From 1933 he worked as a freelance artist for many important companies in Switzerland. He was a founding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

Donald Brun designed a large number of remarkable posters, mainly for consume... more