Apr 24 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2702 -

Sale 2702 - Lot 40

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

NIKLAUS STOECKLIN (1896-1982)

[CLUSER TRANSMISSIONEN]. 1925.

50¼x35½ inches, 127½x90¼ cm. Anstalt W. Wassermann, Basel.
Condition B+: mismatched overpainting over tape marks and replaced loss in top and bottom margins and upper image; minor repaired tears and creases at edges. Framed.

During the 1920s, Otto Baumberger, in Zurich, and Niklaus Stoecklin, in Basel, were the two leading figures in the Swiss graphic school. Both were brilliant and versatile artists whose prolific output reflected their command of the medium, and their understanding of different artistic movements and styles. In 1919 Baumberger designed Switzerland's first realistic object poster, the black top hat for Baumann, and in 1923 he elevated this new style to a higher level with his iconic masterpiece depicting the lining of a PKZ overcoat. In 1925, Niklaus Stoecklin designed this poster, for a transmission company, depicting a realistic object, without any ornamentation. By the 1940s, Stoecklin had developed this New Objectivity to a kind of hyperrealism, or magic realism, lithographically depicting objects in nearly photographic precision and perfection. This is the version before lettering; another variant is subtitled "J. Petitjean Basel" and "Conrad Sigg, Zurich."

Crouse p. 98, Realisme 21 (var), Weill 440 (var), Stoecklin p. 28 (var), Margadant 201 (var), Schweiz p. 41 (var).
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