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XANTI SCHAWINSKY (1904-1979)
ITALY / PANAIR DO BRASIL / PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS SYSTEM. 1949.
42x27½ inches, 106¾x70 cm. Condition B+: repaired tears, creases and restoration in margins; repaired tears in image with slight overpainting.
"Printed by Pan American Airways for its affiliate Panair do Brasil. Panair first flew from Rio de Janeiro to Rome in 1946" (Airlines p. 34). Schawinsky studied in Zürich, Cologne, Berlin and 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; Schawinsky remained there for the duration of the war, working with such luminaries as Breuer and Walter Gropius. This poster has only recently been attributed to Schawinsky. The majority of his posters were designed prior to his immigrating to America.
