Feb 24, 2022 - Sale 2596

Sale 2596 - Lot 418

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

GÉRARD MIEDINGER (1912-1995)

DAS PLAKAT / KUNSTGEWERBEMUSEUM ZÜRICH. 1953.


50x35 inches, 127x89 cm. Bollmann AG, Zurich.
Condition B: repaired tears at edges, some affecting image; creases, abrasions and staining at edges and in image; small losses at edges. Mounted on Chartex.

For this international poster exhibition at the Zurich Kunstgewerbe museum, six artists were each assigned a letter of the word 'PLAKAT' to design as a poster. Miedinger joined Adolf Flückiger, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Hans Falk, Warja Honegger-Lavater and Celestino Piatti in creating this series. Each artist was given the freedom to choose their own style, Miedinger's 'K' is strictly geometric, with flat planes of color. Swiss Graphic Design p. 165, MoMA 1505.2000.