Walter Herdeg

St. Moritz – Original Swiss Winter Poster

1937

A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's second series for General Dynamics, promoting its nuclear research. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as Art Director – a Swiss (1908 – 1998) educated at the Collège Classique in his birth town Lausanne and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. 1934 he emigrated to the United States and became an incredibly versatile graphic designer whose work became exemplary modernist. General Dynamics for its part focused on – amongst others – aerodynamics, aerospace, electronics and nuclear power. So here the company had a problem: Only a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki it wasn’t exactly the simplest thing to explore nuclear energy and not to be suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. The International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 in Geneva was a great opportunity to be seen as a provider of peaceful technology. The guys in charge chose Erik Nitsche to communicate this message. He created four poster series. Atoms for Peace was the first consisting of eleven posters. The second was made for the Conference 1958; these posters are titled Exploring the Universe and represent different aspects of technological research. The third series promoted General Dynamics’ departments. The last series of six smaller posters...

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1980 on the occasion of the exhibition in Lugano named after Le Corbusier's famous dictum "creation is a patient sea...

Original Swiss Vintage Travel Poster promoting the TEE service linking Zurich and Milano (operated 1961 to 1988) by Kurt Wirth, a notable Swiss graphic designer and co-founder of the Swiss Graphic Designers Association. A great modernist design evoking speed and reliability. The international first-class railway service of Trans Europ Express...

Original Vintage Poster, issued 1987 by the ETH in Zurich on the occasion of its exhibition on Le Corbusier's famous – and revolutionary – Villa Savoye, c...

Original Vintage Travel Poster by Frank Newbould, commissioned by LNER (The London & North Eastern Railway of England & Scotland) to promote its connection to Norwich; beautifully pr...

Original Swiss Rolex Poster issued 1942 or 1943 promoting Rolex' "Error Proof Radium dials" that were patented 1942. This is Rolex' first poster; it gaine...

Ancient Hang Cheong Photograph is an original vintage albumen print on single cardboard. It is realized in the 1890s. Fair condition with missi...

Views of Osaka is a set of five original vintage Albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm. They were realized in 1890s. Good conditions e...

The Road With Trees is a print realized by Jacques Thèvenet in the early 20th Century. Lithograph on paper. Hand-signed, Numbered, edition of 6/40 p...

The Village is a lithograph print on paper in the Late 19th century realized by Sarah Green. Signed on the plate Good conditions. From the suite of "France Pittoresques, including...

Eric Ravilious’s Dog II [2022] limited_edition Etching Edition number 33 Image size: H:21 cm x W:21 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:38 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Limited edition print of a man on a train with his hat blowing away. Barratt uses Ravilious’ The Vale of the White Horse as inspiration for this witty etching. Buy Mychael Barratt printmaker works with Wychwood Art gallery online. Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada, however, considers himself to be a Londoner since arriving for what was supposed to be a two-week stay thirty years ago. He is a narrative artist whose work is steeped in imagery relating to art history, literature, theatre and everything else that overfills his bookshelves. He was an artist in residence for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre...

Bold woodblock print by Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999). Titled "Schooner + Doryman", numbered "1st ed.", and signed and dated "Byron Randall '62" along the bottom edge. Small am...