| Creator | Burkhard Mangold |
| Printing year | 1905 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 99.5×79.5 |
| Printing technique | Lithograph |
| Printer | Lith. Anstalt Gebr. Fretz |
| Condition | B+ |
| Asking price | 2'200 CHF |
| Categories | Fairs | Festivals | Zoo, Music | Movies | Theatre, Zurich |
One of the very first Original Posters by Burkhard Mangold, which was selected for production as part of a competition organized by the promoters of the annual Federal Song Festival. This success opened up a lot of doors for the Basel-based artist in Zurich – primarily because Johann Edwin Wolfensberger had hired him as a poster artist at his printing house that very same year: the Graph. Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger, arguably the most important cradle of the Modern Swiss Poster.
The motif, in the style of the Vienna Secession founded in 1897 as a protest against academic (i.e., old fashioned) painting, focuses entirely on Orpheus: The naked singer and poet of Greek mythology is carried into the city of Zurich by a dolphin, along with his indispensable lyre, to which he delivers the good news, so to speak.
The people of Zurich must have been very pleased; after all, Orpheus’s singing so impressed even Hades that he was willing to release his Eurydice.
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