| Creator | Burkhard Mangold |
| Printing year | 1910 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 124×93 |
| Printing technique | Lithograph |
| Printer | Graph. Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger, Zurich |
| Condition | A- |
| Asking price | 2'750 CHF |
| Categories | Hotels & Restaurants, Zurich |
Original Poster by Burkhard Mangold, a pioneer and master of the Basel Poster School, who, thanks to his award-winning design for the 1905 Federal Singing Festival in Zurich, soon received numerous commissions also from Switzerland’s economic hub.
After completing an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, he studied and taught in Munich for six years before returning to Basel in 1900, where he opened his own studio and worked as a painter, illustrator, and poster designer. He had a particular fondness for murals and stained glass, as well as – especially early in his career – for medieval scenes.
In that respect, it was fortunate that the Hotel and Restaurant Beatus, then located at Beatengasse 9 in Zurich, approached him: Saint Beat, who was originally from England, is said to have been the first missionary to the Helvetians, having come from Antioch over the Brünig Pass to Lake Thun as early as the first century (!) and having defeated a dragon there – a legend that made the Beatus Caves an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.
maybe of interest as well:
or