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Amongst Matter's finest photomontages rare.
Herbert Matter
For the X1 National Art Exhibition in 1912
Burkhard Mangold
A Tribute to the Music of Thelonious Monk
Niklaus Troxler
Third Kind of Blue
Niklaus Troxler
1st. Grand Premio Bergamo a 1958 poster by Max Huber for a festival of art films and films about art,
Max Huber
SOLD
Swiss Alps Calling by Aesbach with photo by W. Luthy
Hans Aesbach
SOLD
Konkrete Kunst an important exhibition including works by Arp. Bill, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian, Vantongerloo.
Bill was very busy promoting the
Max Bill
SOLD
usa baut. Poster for an exhibition of modern American  architecture by ex bauhaus student Max Bill.
Bill's many talents had him excel in painting, sculpture, teaching, architecture, and is thought of as Switzerland's finest designer
ref: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann
Swiss graphic design by Richard Hollis
Cold war modern design Victoria and Albert exhibition
Max Bill
SOLD
Theo Ballmer studied at the bauhaus before returning to Basel to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts School where he remained for some 30 years

Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150.
The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
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For the 1931 Art Exhibition in Switzerland Kulagina shows the USSR in construction. Kulagina met her future husband Gustav Klutsis a teacher at Vkhutemas when she enrolled as a student.
The school was conceived explicitly as 'a specialized educational institution for advanced artistic and technical training, created to train highly qualified
master artists for industry.
It was a centre for three major movements in avant garde art and architecture: constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism. 
Kulagina and Klutsis worked closely together on photomontages she also did exceptional posters incorporating photography such as the International Women Workers Day and Women Workers Strenghen the Shock Brigades.

ref: Margadant 57
Kunst and Propaganda 87
Klutsis/Kulagina 139
Valentina Kulagina
SOLD
Zeitprobleme- Problems of our time in Swiss painting and sculpture exhibition.
reference Swiss Graphic Design  Richard Hollis
The History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann
The Swiss poster by Margadant
Max Bill
SOLD
Allianz poster for the Association of Modern Swiss Artists
Max Bill
SOLD
Brasilien Baut-Brazil Builds a poster by the Brasilian artist Matia Viera for an exhibition of architecture,prints and Viera's sculpture.
Reference: History of the poster by Muller-Brockmann page 190.
Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis page 174
Maria Viera
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A travelling exhibition of the Deutschen Werkbundes by the ex bauhaus student Theo Ballmer who went on to teach at the Basel Arts and Crafts school where he remained for some 30 years.
Reference The 20th Century Poster Merrill Berman collection page 150.
The Modern Poster MOMA page 126
Theo Ballmer
SOLD
Meta
Niklaus Stoecklin
SOLD
Bureau
Theo Ballmer
SOLD
Unsere Wohnung
Richard Lohse
SOLD
Winter in Davos
Burkhard Mangold
SOLD

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