Feb 20, 2025 - Sale 2695

Sale 2695 - Lot 374

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

ERIK NITSCHE (1908-1998)

GENERAL DYNAMICS / ASTRODYNAMICS. 1955.


50¼x35½ inches, 127¾x90¼ cm. R. Marsens, Lausanne.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; creases and minor overpainting at edges and in image.

"The first series of six posters established a tone for all future General Dynamics graphics, as well as a paradigm, of sorts, for how the marriage of science and engineering would be visualized by kindred companies. Indeed, Nitsche's brand of artful futurism was copied by many others at the time and might be seen today as representative of the so-called 'Atomic Style' that emerged in the mid- to late-1950s" (https://www.typotheque.com/articles/erik_nitsche_the_reluctant_modernist).

This is the Russian language poster from the Atoms for Peace series. Dynamic America p. 393, MoMA 220.1956.