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make a telephone call

Artist: Herbert Leupin
Year: 1941
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
Price: up to CHF4000 / EUR 4000 / USD 4000 (recommended price)

About this poster

In the 1940s, at a time when exchange via telephone communication was enormously important, the creative and well-known Basel designer Herbert Leupin created this unique poster for the interest group Pro Telephon. This colour lithograph from 1941 shows a feather and the receiver of the fixed-line telephone apparatus that was developed in the 1920s. The juxtaposition of the two objects brings home to the viewer the immense progress of communications technology. A rarity.

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 ...