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GÜNTHER KIESER (1930- ) AMERICAN FOLK BLUES FESTIVAL. 1968. 46 1/2x33 inches, 118x83 3/4 cm. West Germany. Condition B+: tape on verso in upper right corner; tears, abrasions and light staining at edges; pin holes in corners; creases in margins and image. Paper. Kieser essentially dedicated his entire career to posters promoting jazz and blues concerts. He has designed hundreds of posters, the most memorable of which are images of three-dimensional tableaux that he constructed using diverse objects that caught his inspirational attention. He was also a major proponent of graphic découpage, in which he brought various images together to help form a cohesive message. This seminal image is the first he designed for the Hamburg Folk Blues Festival. The guitar at the center of the image is covered with "American" objects and photographs. He would continue to use the guitar in his subsequent posters for the event (in each case adorned differently), so much so that it became an immediately recognizable logo. Jazz, Pop, Rock p. 43, Fotoplakate p. 182 (var).
