Swissair – Japan
| Creator | |
|---|---|
| Printing year | 1965 |
| Printing technique | Serigraph |
| Printer | unknown |
| Condition | A |
| Asking price (CHF): | |
| Sheet size (cm) | 102 x 64 |
| Categories | in the air, rest of the world, Swissair & Aviation |
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Original tourism poster, inspired by the spirit of Concrete Art, which, according to records kept by the Swissair advertising manager of several decades, can undoubtedly be attributed to Nikolaus Schwabe (1926 – 2018), who—after leaving the Zurich School of Applied Arts—studied sculpture in Paris under Fernand Léger, among others, starting in 1944. Schwabe incorporates the three-dimensional starting in 1961 in his first series of Swissair posters designed using collages.
The present design stems from his enthusiasm for Platonic solids and geometry, which is also the origin of those objects that Schwabe is exhibiting at the Espace de l’Art Concret, opened in 1990 by Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers-Barrier at the Château de Mouans.
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