| Creator | Nikolaus Schwabe |
| Printing year | 1965 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 102×64 |
| Printing technique | Serigraph |
| Printer | unknown |
| Condition | A |
| Asking price | 1'500 CHF |
| Categories | in the air, rest of the world, Swissair & Aviation |
Original Air Travel Poster inspired by the spirit of concrete art, that, according to records kept by the advertising manager who worked for Swissair for decades, can undoubtedly be attributed to Nikolaus Schwabe (1926 – 2018), who, after dropping out of the Zurich School of Applied Arts in 1944, studied sculpture in Paris with Fernand Léger, among others. Schwabe took up three-dimensional art in 1961 in his first series of Swissair posters, which he designed using collages.
This design stems from his enthusiasm for Platonic bodies and geometry, which also inspired the objects that Schwabe exhibited at the Espace de l’Art Concret, opened in 1990 by Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers-Barrier at the Château de Mouans.
maybe of interest as well:
and voilà a third motif from this graphic-concrete series: