MEISTER DER PLAKATKUNST
Hans Fischli and Siegfried Odermatt [Designer]
Siegfried Odermatt [Designer], Hans Fischli [foreword]: MEISTER DER PLAKATKUNST [Masters of Poster Art]. Zurich: Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1959. Original edition. Text in German. A nearly fine softcover book with printed stiff wrappers: uncoated white wrappers with trace of wear. Spine lightly rolled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Way out-of-print.
8.75 x 8 softcover book with 70 pages and 6 black and white full-page plates and 142 text illustrations detailing the history of the poster from the late nineteenth century to 1959. Exhibition catalog for the Ausstellung, aus der Plakat-Sammlung des Kunstgewerbe-museums, Geoffnet vom 31. Mais bis zum 19. Juli 1959.
Artists include Carlo Vivarelli, Michael Engelmann, Paul R. Smith and Kenneth D. Haak, Erik Nitsche, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Hiroshi Ohchi, Takehiko Miyanaga, Yoshio Hayakawa, Leonard Cusden, Abram Games, Hans Fabigan, Julius Klinger, Michel und Kieser, Werner Klemke, John Heartfield, Antoni Clave, Raymond Savignac, Bernard Villemot, Jacques Nathan, A. M. Cassandre, Paul Colin, Leonetto Cappiello, Wojciech Zamecznik, El Lissitzky, Josef Muller-Brockmann, Richard Paul Lohse, Max Bill, Celestino Piatti, Herbert Leupin, Hans Erni, Herbert Matter, Pierre Gauchat, Hermann Eidenbenz, Peter Birkhauser, Donald Brun, Nicklaus Stoecklin, Ernst Keller, Charles Loupot, Otto Baumberger, Burkard Mangold, Emile Cardinaux, Emil Huber, Ferdinand Hodler, Fritz Rumpf, Lucian Bernhard, Hans Rudi Erdt, Aubrey Beardsley, Pierre Bonnard, Alfons Mucha, Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Jules Cheret among others.