Bern – Center for City and Alpine Flights

Extremely rare original Bern poster, published in 1929 by the city's tourist office, which promoted Bern on the occasion of the founding of the Alpar airline in March as a starting point for sightseeing flights and flights over the Alps—undoubtedly to keep the target audience in the region that had previously traveled to Basel (to Balair) or Zurich (to Ad Astra).

The poster was designed by the painter and graphic artist Otto Golder (1903–1979), who in the mid-1930s nevertheless embarked on medical training and left posterity with articles such as «The Arteries of the Human Testicle and Epididymis, Their Anastomoses, and Their Significance for Surgery.» Accordingly, no other poster by him is known.

Effectively staged above the old town of Bern is a Comte AC-8, the second aircraft acquired by Alpar (Alfred Comte was one of the most influential Swiss aviation pioneers who began building his own models in 1923). Operating out of Belpmoos Airport, Alpar was founded by both public and private investors to connect the capital city to the international route network. It survived the war years without flying much, only to file for bankruptcy in 1947—it was Swissair (created in 1931 from a merger of Balair and Ad Astra) that was designated as the national airline.

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