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Where all ski-ers meet – Scheidegg-Hotels Wengernalp Jungfraurailways
Artist: Walter Trier
Year: 1933
Size: 102 x 71 cm / 40.2 x 28″
About this poster
With this amusing design, the famous illustrator Walter Trier advertised the Scheidegg Hotels on Wengernalp in the Jungfrau region in the 1930s. In Trier's well-known manner, it shows ski students from all over the world who are most likely venturing onto the snowy slopes in the Bernese Oberland for the first time. During the First World War, Trier drew a series of propagandistic caricatures for the wartime editions of the Lustige Blätter, Berlin. Trier, who was already very successful and respected worldwide, became famous in the 1930s for his illustrations for children's books by Erich Kästner or for the illustrations of Mark Twain's children's books. Here is the English-language version promoting the Scheidegg Hotels in 1933.
Artist: Walter Trier
Walter Trier was the child of a German-speaking, Jewish-bourgeois family. He studied first in Prague and later in Munich, worked for Simplicissimus, Jugend and Lustige Blätter, among others, and drew for Ullstein Verlag from 1910, including for Berliner Illustrierte. During the First World War he drew a series of propagandistic caricatures against Great Britain and the other members of the Entente for the war edi... more
Walter Trier was the child of a German-speaking, Jewish-bourgeois family. He studied first in Prague and later in Munich, worked for Simplicissimus, Jugend a ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 5706
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- Printer: Eidenbenz - Seitz & Co. St. Gallen
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- Size: 102 x 71 cm / 40.2 x 28″
- Printing technique:Lithograph in colours
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A-
Very good condition. Picture preserved completely. Wrinkles and small tears, if any, restricted to edges. - Category:
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