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Jungfrau Railway – Switzerland
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Year: 1928
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
About this poster
This magnificent poster - detailed like a watercolour - from 1928 by Emil Cardinaux for the Jungfrau Railway shows a group of people or a group of tourists walking on the summit of the Jungfrau Glacier, overlooking the majestic landscape spread out before them and displaying a huge Swiss flag. The Jungfrau Railway, which climbs the Jungfraujoch in the Bernese Alps, was started in 1898 and completed in 1912. It reaches a height of 11,330 feet, making it the highest point in Europe that can be reached by train, and is rightly called "Top of Europe".
Artist: Emil Cardinaux
Emil CARDINAUX (1877 Bern 1936)
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Swiss art scene underwent thorough transformation. The central figure in this development was the painter Ferdinand Hodler. He was the first among Swiss artists who dared to radically be himself. Even though Hodler never took on students, the art world soon coined the term “Hodlerians” for a small group of Bernese artists. What the... more
Emil CARDINAUX (1877 Bern 1936)
Towards the end of the 19th century, the Swiss art scene underwent thorough transformation. The central figure in this ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 3724
- Artist:
- Company: Jungfraubahnen, Interlaken, CH
- Brand:Jungfrau-Bahn, CH
- Printer: Graphische Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger AG, Zürich, CH
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- Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Stone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
B-/J
Reasonably fair condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and tears possible. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:Paradis à vendre - Un siècle d‘affiches touristiques suisses
Reihe Schweizer Plakatgestalter 2 - Emil Cardinaux 1877 - 1936
