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Summer in the Grisons – Switzerland
Artist: Jakob Friedrich Bollschweiler
Year: 1905
Size: 105 x 76 cm / 41.3 x 29.9″
About this poster
In 1905, while apprenticing as a lithographer, Jakob Bollschweiler took part in a poster design competition for the tourism advertising office of the Grisons. His sister Emma modelled for him, although she said herself that she had trouble restraining her lively temperament to sit still for the sketch. To the delight of her brother, this poster won him first prize.
Artist: Jakob Friedrich Bollschweiler
Jakob Bollschweiler apprenticed as a lithographer. After his apprenticeship, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and took part in a poster competition for the tourism advertising office of the Grisons in 1905. For this work Bollschweiler won the first prize. In 1938 he died in a fatal accident during a flight from Tirana to Rome where he is burried.
Jakob Bollschweiler apprenticed as a lithographer. After his apprenticeship, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and took part in a poster compe ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 4122
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- Company: Verkehrsverein Graubünden, CH
- Printer: Orell-Füssli, Zürich
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- Size: 105 x 76 cm / 41.3 x 29.9″
- 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:Graubünden im Plakat - Tourismuswerbung 1890 bis heute
Touristikplakate der Schweiz - Affiches touristiques de la Suisse - Tourism Posters of Switzerland 1880-1940
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