Swiss Alpine Postal Coaches

Artist: Herbert Berthold Libiszewski
Year: 1930
Size: 100 x 62 cm / 39.4 x 24.4″

About this poster

Post buses replaced mail coaches in the 20th century and assumed an important role in alpine travel. The yellow route on the poster represents the importance of post buses at the time. This is a rare and original poster done by the well-known graphic designer Herbert Libiszewski in 1945.

Artist: Herbert Berthold Libiszewski

Herbert LIBISZEWSKI was born in Bischofszell, Switzerland in 1897 and worked as a fashion illustrator, advertising consultant, illustrator, painter and graphic designer (under the pseudonym of Libis) in St. Gallen.
First he was trained as an embroidery designer in St. Gallen, then he spent a few semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. In 1921 he moved to Pari... more

Herbert LIBISZEWSKI was born in Bischofszell, Switzerland in 1897 and worked as a fashion illustrator, advertising consultant, illustrator, painter and graph ...

ic designer (under the pseudonym of Libis) in St. Gallen.
First he was trained as an embroidery designer in St. Gallen, then he spent a few semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. In 1921 he moved to Pari... more