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HERBERT MATTER (1907-1984)
124
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ZWITSERLAND. 1934.
40
1
/
4
x25 inches, 102
1
/
4
x63
1
/
4
cm.
Condition A / A-: minor restoration at edges; abrasions in image. Framed.
This is the Dutch version. Fotoplakate p. 121 (var), La Femme 21, Paradis p. 22 (var), 1000 Posters
251 (var), Müller-Brockmann 262 (var).
[2,000/3,000]
WALTER ALLNER (1909-2006)
125
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SUISSE ÉTÉ / WAGONS - LITS // COOK.
39
1
/
4
x24 inches, 99
3
/
4
x61 cm. Omnium Graphique, Paris.
Condition B+: restored losses and overpainting at edges; abrasions in margins and image.
Allner had an exceptional avant-garde, artistic education. He studied at the Bauhaus in Germany under Josef
Albers, Kandinsky and Paul Klee, he studied with Otto Neurath in Vienna, worked with Piet Zwart in
Holland and with A.M. Cassandre and Jean Carlu in Paris. He moved to America at the end of the 1940s
and began working with large corporate clients like Johnson & Johnson, R.C.A.,
Life
magazine and others.
In 1962, he became Art Director for
Fortune Magazine
. This poster, (from his Parisian years, published by
his own design company, Omnium Graphique), has a masterful layout, employing both the vertical and
diagonal axes, as well as fluently integrating photomontage with graphics.
[1,500/2,000]
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