| Creator | Erica von Kager |
| Printing year | 1932 |
| Sheet size (cm) | 100×68 |
| Printing technique | Lithograph |
| Printer | Armbruster |
| Condition | A |
| Asking price | 3'600 CHF |
| Categories | Bern(ese Oberland), Switzerland |
Original, painterly Travel Poster designed in 1932 by Erica von Kager to advertise also in French-speaking Switzerland the alpine swimming pool and sunbathing lawn of Bernese Oberland’s Zweisimmen (the gateway to the Gstaad Saanenland region), which opened in 1927 and is fed by the Kleine Simme river.
Von Kager (1890 – 1978) is one of the very few female artists who also created a small body of work in the form of Swiss Posters during the interwar period. Descended from a noble family in Bolzano and as the daughter of an engineer who commuted between Switzerland and the Habsburg Monarchy (who was in charge of construction of the Simplon Tunnel), she was destined to travel from an early age: Born in Zurich, she trained at the Basel School of Applied Arts and in Paris, followed by three years of study in Munich, before settling in Chur in 1913, moving to Bern in 1917 and then to New York in 1935.
The fact that the former portrait painter has not been completely forgotten is mainly due to her posters — and the extremely charming illustrations she designed for children’s books and New Year’s cards.
maybe of interest as well:
Gstaad – the wonderful swimming-pool in the Bernese Oberland