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NO to inheritance tax
Artist: Hugo Laubi
Year: 1936
Size: 128 x 90.5 cm / 50.4 x 35.6″
Price:
CHF450
About this poster
As well as designing advertisements for travel destinations and consumer goods, the famous poster master Hugo Laubi also occasionally created posters for political referendums, such as this one from 1936 against an inheritance and gift tax. The scene arouses pity, showing how referendum campaigns appealed to voters’ emotions back then, just as (or perhaps even more than) they do nowadays.
Artist: Hugo Laubi
Hugo Laubi was born in 1888 in Zurich, where he worked as an illustrator, painter and graphic artist until he died in 1959. He studied in Munich and Paris and worked as a graphic artist in London in 1911. In 1918 he became the director of the printing and lithography company Gebr. Fretz in Zurich and also worked as a freelance graphic artist. In 1920 he went to Philadelphia and New York. Laubi’s work as an illus... more
Hugo Laubi was born in 1888 in Zurich, where he worked as an illustrator, painter and graphic artist until he died in 1959. He studied in Munich and Paris an ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 4721
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- Company: Bauern-, Gewerbe u. Bürgerpartei Zürich, CH
- Printer: J.C. Müller AG, Zürich
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- Size: 128 x 90.5 cm / 50.4 x 35.6″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A/J
Excellent condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Price:
CHF450
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