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Jungfrau Railway Jungfraujoch 11333 feet Bernese Oberland Switzerland

Artist: Ernst Hodel
Year: 1936
Size: 102 x 64 cm / 40.2 x 25.2″
Price: up to CHF3000 / EUR 3000 / USD 3000 (recommended price)

About this poster

This original stone lithograph advertising the Jungfrau railway was designed in the 1930s by the painter Ernst Hodel, who today is mainly known for his large landscape murals. It shows a sublime view of the Jungfrau peak as seen from the Jungfraujoch. Beneath it lies the “Sphinx” outcrop with the scientific observatory, which was opened in 1931. A cupola for astronomical observations was added to the building in 1950. This later poster from 1952 shows the addition of the cupola as well as visitors on the viewing platform.

Artist: Ernst Hodel

The painter Ernst Hodel jr. was born in Lucerne in 1881. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and travelled to Paris and Milan. After the death of his father, who was also a well-known painter, he returned to Lucerne. He painted mainly landscapes, animals and religious genre scenes. He created landscape murals in the railway stations of Lucerne, Berne and Basel and finished his father’s mon... more

The painter Ernst Hodel jr. was born in Lucerne in 1881. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and travelled to Paris and Milan. After t ...

he death of his father, who was also a well-known painter, he returned to Lucerne. He painted mainly landscapes, animals and religious genre scenes. He created landscape murals in the railway stations of Lucerne, Berne and Basel and finished his father’s mon... more