May 06, 2002 - Sale 1935

Sale 1935 - Lot 103

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WENIGER LARM. 1960.
50 1/4x35 1/4 inches. J. Muller-Brockmann, Zurich.
Condition A-: minor paper loss, tears and creases in margins. Paper.
In the same style, Joseph Muller-Brockmann designed another super-powerful image for a different public campaign launched by the Swiss Committee to Combat Noise. Employing a close-up black and white photograph, in which the hard, right angle formed by the red text and the woman's arms, holding her ears, sets up a dissonance which accentuates the anguish on her face, Brockman has created a very strong image.
ref: Joseph Muller-Brockmann, Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design<>, Verlag Lars Muller Baden-Switzerland 1995, p. 147, The Modern Poster<>, by Stuart Wrede, MOMA, New York, 1988, no. 252.