Basel Rhine Bridge – For all your shopping needs

Creator

Peter Birkhäuser

Printing year

1943

Printing technique

Lithography

Printer

Aquarius

Condition

Asking price (CHF):

Sheet size (cm)

Categories

1 in stock

An original poster, designed in 1943 by Peter Birkhäuser for the Rheinbrücke department store in Basel in the New Objectivity style—and a poster that, given the emphasis on the maximum utility of the objects depicted, could only have been printed during the years of World War II. On the other hand: At least Swiss companies were in a position to advertise consumer goods at all.

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