| Creator | Burkhard Mangold |
| Printing year | 1930 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 128×90.5 |
| Printing technique | Lithograph |
| Printer | Graph. Anstalt W. Wassermann |
| Condition | A |
| Asking price | 0 CHF |
| Categories | Hotels & Restaurants, Music | Movies | Theatre |
The villa, built outside the city limits in 1822, initially served the upper classes who retreated to their country estates for the summer, but who did not want to do without dancing, gambling and their peers. In keeping with the changing times, the Park Restaurant was opened here in 1930 – but this did not pay off in view of the competition from the city casino in the centre of Basel. Before a foundation took over the building and converted it into Switzerland’s first youth centre in the early 1960s, it was used as refugee accommodation between 1938 and 1946.
Burkhard Mangold (1873 – 1950) from Basel was, together with Otto Baumberger from Zurich and Emil Cardinaux from Bern, one of the most productive and groundbreaking pioneers of modern Swiss posters and spent his most formative years as an apprentice in Munich during the heyday of Art Nouveau. Nevertheless, he remained receptive to developments triggered by the changing spirit of the times, and so this original poster – designed on the occasion of the opening of the Park Restaurant in May 1930 and one of his last four or five – with its comparatively much more restrained composition and restriction to the three primary colours, has to be attributed to Art Deco, which was also associated with glamour and extravagance, even during the economic depression from the end of the 1920s.
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