| Creator | Leo Keck |
| Printing year | 1937 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 101.5×63.5 |
| Printing technique | Lithograph |
| Printer | Fretz Bros. |
| Condition | A |
| Asking price | 0 CHF |
| Categories | Bern(ese Oberland), on the tracks | by cable car, Switzerland |
With the practically vertical continuation of the N, Leo Keck (1906 – 1987) congenially demonstrates the enormous gradient of the funicular railroad on Thun’s local mountain, which was opened in 1910 (and is still in operation): over a distance of 3.5 kilometers from Mülenen (700 m above sea level), the wagons climb over 1640 meters in altitude – which corresponds to a fabulous gradient of almost 70 percent.
This poster is undoubtedly one of the best-known Swiss travel posters from the 1930s due to its lucent fauvist colors and highly abstract design; rare, especially in this condition.
Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Keck worked for two of the most important Swiss poster printers in the 1930s and 1940s: First as a graphic artist and lithographer at Wolfensberger, then from 1937 as in-house graphic artist at the Fretz brothers, both in Zurich.
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