Mont Soleil – Swiss Ski School

Creator

Henri Sandoz

Printing year

1939

Printing technique

Lithography

Printer

Fiedler

Condition

A

Asking price (CHF):

Sheet size (cm)

90.5 x 62

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1 in stock

Original tourism poster with which Henri Sandoz, then 20 years old, won a competition in 1939 organized by the Society for the Development of St. Imier below the Mont Soleil in the Bernese Jura. What likely convinced the jury was that, for once, Sandoz did not advertise the funicular railway inaugurated in 1903, but rather—and quite programmatically in radiant yellow—the local ski school.

possibly of interest as well – the Mont Soleil also had bob races:
Bobsled Race in St. Imier – Championnat Romand