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Ouate de Schaffhouse
Artist: Pierre Gauchat
Year: 1949
Size: 128 x 90 cm / 50.4 x 35.4″
About this poster
A fine exapmle of 1940’s Swiss hyper-realism by Pierre Gauchat for the Schaffhauser Watte (cotton pads). The designer is promoting the object by depicting it in hightened realism, which makes this images shap and eye catching.
Artist: Pierre Gauchat
Pierre GAUCHAT was born in Zurich in 1902 and died in Cairo in 1956.
He studied graphic design under Ernst Keller at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts and later in Munich. After learning about printing techniques during an internship at Orell Füssli, he started his own studio in Zurich in 1922 and taught graphic design from 1926 to 1945. He worked as a freelance graphic designer creating advertising, pos... more
Pierre GAUCHAT was born in Zurich in 1902 and died in Cairo in 1956.
He studied graphic design under Ernst Keller at the Zurich School of Arts and Craf
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Poster details
- Poster No.: 9
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- Company: Internationale Verbandsstoff-Fabrik, Schaffhausen, 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:Lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A-
Very good condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. - Category:
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