EMIL CARDINAUX (1877-1936)
90
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SCHWIZERISCHE LANDESAUSSTELLUNG. 1914.
50
3
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4
x35
1
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2
inches, 129x90 cm. J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich.
Condition A-: minor tears and repaired tears along vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
Cardinaux studied painting with Franz von Stuck in Germany, and also worked in Paris before
returning to Switzerland where he became one of the founding fathers of Swiss poster art. In 1908,
his poster for Zermatt with its flat colors and broad outlining was a revolution in the Swiss graphic
art world. This fauvist image of a yellow horseman astride a green horse, promoting a Swiss Exhibition,
proved to be scandalous; it took a patriotic subject and treated it with such unrealistic color that the
normally passive Swiss surprised everyone by rallying against it. Cardinaux 37, Plakat Kunst p. 70,
Muller-Brockmann 66, Schweiz / Kulturelle 16, Schweiz / Plakat p. 32, Weill 203.
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