Gaba throat lozenges, Niklaus Stoecklin
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Gaba throat lozenges

Artist: Niklaus Stoecklin
Year: 1927
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″

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It is not easy to find better advertising than the "object posters" created in Basel in the 1940s to 1960s by Herbert Leupin, Niklaus Stoecklin and Peter Birkhäuser. This particularly idiosyncratic poster for GABA stands out from Stoecklin's other works because it bears no graphic similarities to his earlier or later works. We see a highly stylized human head, colored blue to suggest that the person is not well. For such a remarkably simple composition, it is extremely effective.

Artist: Niklaus Stoecklin

Niklaus STOECKLIN was born in Basel in 1896 and died in 1982.

Stoecklin’s first teacher in Basel was Burkhard Mangold who heavily influenced his style. He studied at the Basel School of Arts and Craft and created his first ‘object poster’ in 1922. He then studied the modern graphic style in Munich and became influenced by Ludwig Hohlwein and the Purist style of the great Swiss architect and designer L... more

Niklaus STOECKLIN was born in Basel in 1896 and died in 1982.

Stoecklin’s first teacher in Basel was Burkhard Mangold who heavily influenced his sty ...

le. He studied at the Basel School of Arts and Craft and created his first ‘object poster’ in 1922. He then studied the modern graphic style in Munich and became influenced by Ludwig Hohlwein and the Purist style of the great Swiss architect and designer L... more
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