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Women’s suffrage – NO! – Mother, when will you come home?
Artist: Hugo Laubi
Year: 1946
Size: 127.5 x 90 cm / 50.2 x 35.4″
Price:
CHF1900
About this poster
The struggle for female suffrage in Switzerland was a long one. In 1971 Swiss women finally received the right to vote on a national level. The opponents of women’s suffrage often used the simple argument that a mother’s role could not be combined with political participation. Today, historical campaign posters, such as this one showing a child holding a broken flower, are popular in the media and among poster collectors.
Artist: Hugo Laubi
Hugo Laubi was born in 1888 in Zurich, where he worked as an illustrator, painter and graphic artist until he died in 1959. He studied in Munich and Paris and worked as a graphic artist in London in 1911. In 1918 he became the director of the printing and lithography company Gebr. Fretz in Zurich and also worked as a freelance graphic artist. In 1920 he went to Philadelphia and New York. Laubi’s work as an illus... more
Hugo Laubi was born in 1888 in Zurich, where he worked as an illustrator, painter and graphic artist until he died in 1959. He studied in Munich and Paris an ...
Poster details
- Poster No.: 4711
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- Printer: J.C. Müller AG, Zürich
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- Size: 127.5 x 90 cm / 50.2 x 35.4″
- Printing technique: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:Politische & soziale Plakate der Schweiz - Political & Social Posters of Switzerland
- Price:
CHF1900
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