ARMIN HOFMANN (1920- ) BASLER FREILICHTSPIELE / WILHELM TELL. 1963 50 1/4x35 1/2 inches, 127 1/2x90 cm. Condition A: soft wrinkles in image. Steven Heller, writing in the catalogue of the artist's work for the Zurich Museum, states that his posters "collectively epitomize mid-century modernism...[in his poster for] William Tell, he used the typically sonorous economy of his resources to show what a fundamental change applied art was undergoing. The Tell play is firmly established in popular Swiss culture…Hofmann takes up the indispensable symbols of the Tell legend, the apple and the arrow, but uses typeface and image to condense them into a symbolic abstraction of an elegance unparalleled for this subject matter." Hofmann p. 65, Müller-Brockmann 113.
