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XANTI SCHAWINSKY (1904-1979) 1934 • XII / SI. Poster insert from La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo Italiano magazine. 1934. 37 3/4x25 3/4 inches, 96x65 1/2 cm. Alfieri E Lacroix, Milan. Condition B+: repaired tear at left edge, slightly into image; minor creases and abrasions in margins and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; scotch tape along left edge and tear on verso. Paper. Schawinsky studied in Zürich, Cologne, Berlin, with the Bauhaus in Weimar and worked in the Boggieri Studio in Milan for some of Italy's most prestigious advertising clients. In 1936, he immigrated to America at the behest of Josef Albers, who invited him to teach at Black Mountain College, where Schawinsky remained for the duration of the war working with such luminaries as Breuer and Walter Gropius. This image was included in the April 1934 issue of the Italian magazine La Revista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia. Encyclopedie de l'Affiche p. 356, Mechanical Age p. 57 fig 2.6, no. 2, Le Coultre p. 50, Consenso p. 22, Design Graphique p. 76, Modernism 232, Berman / Juan March p. 138, The Poster 266, Metiers No. 50 n.p.
