EMIL PIRCHAN (1884-1957) ALBERT EBNER. Pre 1913. 38 1/4x27 3/4 inches. Condition A-: minor repaired tears in margins; horizontal fold in image; abrasions in image. Pirchan was a multi-disciplined artist who successfully applied his talents around the great artistic capitals of Europe. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he studied in Vienna with Otto Wagner and became a painter, illustrator and graphic designer. In 1908, he opened a graphic studio in Munich and then, in 1914, a poster school. He moved to Berlin in 1919, to Prague in 1932 and became a teacher of applied art at the Academy in Vienna in 1936. He ultimately focussed on stage design and, indeed, many of his posters feature a strong dramatic quality. Pirchan excels in a minimalist use of flat tones and planes of solid colors with which he constructs compositions of silent mystery. Here, for a printer, he creates a symbolic vision of advertising, depicting priests in a round Greek temple-style structure blowing their trumpets and heralding the arrival of some new campaign. DFP III 2560.
