Swiss National Singing Festival | Zurich
| Author | Burkhard Mangold |
|---|---|
| Year of printing | 1905 |
| Printing Technology | Lithography |
| Printing Company | Fretz Brothers Printing Company |
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| Kategorien | Trade Shows | Festivals | Zoo, Music | Film | Theater, Switzerland, Zurich |
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One of the very first original posters designed by Burkhard Mangold, selected for production as part of a competition organized by the organizers of the annual singers’ festival—a competition that also opened doors for the Basel native in Zurich —especially since Johann Edwin Wolfensberger had hired him that same year as a poster artist at his printing shop: the Graphische Anstalt J. E. Wolfensberger, arguably the most important cradle of modern Swiss poster art.
The motif, in the style of the Vienna Secession—founded in 1897 as a protest against academic (i.e., archaic) painting—focuses entirely on Orpheus: The naked singer and poet from Greek mythology, accompanied by his trademark lyre, is carried into the city of Zurich by a dolphin, to whom he brings, so to speak, the good news.
That must have made the people of Zurich very happy; after all, Orpheus’s singing had so impressed Hades himself that he was willing to give Eurydice back.
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