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National circus KNIE
Artist: Herbert Leupin
Year: 1970
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
About this poster
In the 1970s, Leupin started to concentrate more and more on artistic works that centred on the figure of the clown: “I’m just taken with clowns and they won’t let me go.” Hereby, Leupin submitted himself to completely new rules and different criteria. On this 1970 poster for Knie, the features of the famous Swiss mime Dimitri are drawn with thin brushstrokes; there is a subtle melancholy in his smile and little black spots mark the sadness in his eyes.
Artist: Herbert Leupin
Herbert LEUPIN was born in Beinwil am See in 1916. He lived in Basel and later in his life he moved to the Italian part of Switzerland, where he died in 1999.
Between 1932 and 1935, he was trained at the Basel School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught by teachers such as Paul Kammüller, Hermann Eidenbenz and Donald Brun. After graduating, he did an internship at the Eidenbenz advertising firm in Basel... more
Herbert LEUPIN was born in Beinwil am See in 1916. He lived in Basel and later in his life he moved to the Italian part of Switzerland, where he died in 1999 ...
Between 1932 and 1935, he was trained at the Basel School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught by teachers such as Paul Kammüller, Hermann Eidenbenz and Donald Brun. After graduating, he did an internship at the Eidenbenz advertising firm in Basel... more
Poster details
- Poster No.: 1701
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- Company: Gebrüder Knie, Schweizer National-Cirkus AG, Rapperswil, CH
- Printer: Georg Rentsch Söhne,Trimbach
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- Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
- Printing technique:Offset print
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- Publications:50 Jahre Schweizer Plakate, ausgezeichnet vom Eidg. Dep. des Innern - 50 years Swiss Posters selected by the Federal Department of Home Affairs
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