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Pontresina – Engadine – Switzerland
Artist: Martin Peikert
Year: 1939
Size: 101.6 x 64 cm / 40 x 25.2″
Price:
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About this poster
Martin Peikert provoked astonishment with his amusing and lively posters for the Swiss tourist resorts. His bold designs made him one of the most popular designers of Swiss travel advertising in the 1940s and his posters still appeal to many collectors both in Switzerland and abroad. His posters convey a sense of joie de vivre, health and cheerfulness in subjects such as children and ladies. This unique vintage poster of a lady lounging in the winter sun of Pontresina is rare. A perfect stone lithograph from 1939.
Artist: Martin Peikert
Martin Peikert was born in 1901 in Zug and died there in 1975.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and worked as an advertising illustrator until he graduated in 1921. In the years 1921 to 1923 he travelled to Stuttgart, Hamburg and Paris. From 1923 he worked in Geneva as a commercial painter and decorator and from 1925 to 1927 he designed the newspaper “Wochenschau” by Orell Füssli AG Zuri... more
Martin Peikert was born in 1901 in Zug and died there in 1975.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and worked as an advertising illustrato
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Poster details
- Poster No.: 4194
- Artist:
- Company: Verkehrsverein Pontresina, CH
- Brand:Engadin, Graubünden - Grisons, CH
- Printer: Gebr. Fretz AG, Zürich
- Country:
- Size: 101.6 x 64 cm / 40 x 25.2″
- Printing technique:Stone lithograph in colours
- Condition:
A-/J
Very good condition. Picture preserved. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. Mounted on acid-free Japanese vellum. - Category:
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- Publications:A Century of Swiss Winter Sports Posters
Martin Peikert - Die Plakate - Les Affiches - Price:
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