Switzerland, Kurt Wirth
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Switzerland

Artist: Kurt Wirth
Year: 1952
Size: 101.7 x 64 cm / 40 x 25.2″
Price: CHF450

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Kurt Wirth designed extremely effective posters for Swissair. This motif dates from the early 1950s and features men and women in Swiss traditional costumes promoting Switzerland as a tourist destination. The subject was lithographed in various languages

Artist: Kurt Wirth

Kurt Wirth (1917 to 1996) lived and worked in Berne. He served an apprenticeship as a graphic designer and opened his own studio in 1938. He co-founded the “Verband Schweizerischer Grafiker” (Swiss Graphic Designers Association) in 1938, over which he presided in the 1950s. Wirth was among the leading Swiss graphic designers after the Second World War, but he also made paintings and drawings, which were less w... more

Kurt Wirth (1917 to 1996) lived and worked in Berne. He served an apprenticeship as a graphic designer and opened his own studio in 1938. He co-founded the ...

Verband Schweizerischer Grafiker” (Swiss Graphic Designers Association) in 1938, over which he presided in the 1950s. Wirth was among the leading Swiss graphic designers after the Second World War, but he also made paintings and drawings, which were less w... more
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