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Otto BAUMBERGER

(1889 – 1961)

Otto Baumberger is one of the most important graphic designers in Switzerland and is often considered the "spiritual father" of the Swiss poster.
After an apprenticeship as a lithographer with Emil Winter in Zurich, he studied from 1905 to 1907 at the Kunstgewerbeschule (now part of the Zurich University of the Arts). He then went on to complete his training in Munich, Paris and London.
Back in Zurich, he worked as a lithographer and art director in the studio of the famous printer J.E. Wolfensberger from 1911 to 1913, where he created his first poster in 1911.
For more than 40 years, he produced about 250 posters for the tourism, culture, politics and advertising industries.
Baumberger's creative activities were not limited to graphic design, he was also a painter, a scenographer and an art teacher.
In its diversity, Otto Baumberger's work embodies the history of the Swiss poster in the first half of the 20th century. In his posters, he seeks the most appropriate solutions to convey the message to the public.
His tourist posters for Switzerland's major cities depict a luminous environment where nature is at one with man, which does not disturb the tranquillity of the moment captured by the artist. The cities are set back to show the viewer the beauty of a lake and a mountain in the background.
Baumberger is also one of the precursors of the Sachplakat (object posters); his PKZ coat (circa 1923) being one of the icons of this graphic movement; of the typographic poster and of the International Swiss Style (Brak liqueur (1937), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1928)).

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Zürich, Restaurant St-Gotthard

1913

CHF 2930.–

Zürich, Specks Cinema, Haus du Pont

1913

CHF 2420.–

Zürich, Restaurant Du Pont

1913

CHF 2420.–

Festvorstellung Oresteia, Max Reinhardt, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Zürich

1916

CHF 2460.–

Senft Wohnung, Einrichtungen, Basel

1916

CHF 2650.–

Lichtspiele speck's Palast, Untersee expedition

1916

CHF 2370.–

Medea, Hofburgtheater Wien

1917

CHF 1880.–

Gastspiel Professor Arthur Nikisch, 1917

1917

CHF 1830.–

Baumann Kölliker & Co., Zürich

1917

CHF 2600.–

Hotel St-Gotthard, Zürich

1917

CHF 1240.–

Swan

1919

CHF 3200.–

PKZ Qualité

1921

CHF 2500.–

Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten, Ausstellung Gesellschaft Schweiz

1921

CHF 1280.–

Strauliseifen, Winterthur

1923

CHF 1040.–

Dosenbach, Grosser Schuhmarkt

circa 1923

CHF 1360.–

South

circa 1924

CHF 4450.–

Sträuli Seifen, Winterthur

1925

CHF 2640.–

Haarnetz mit der Spinne

circa 1925

CHF 480.–

Balair, Benützet den Luftweg, Luftverkehrs Union

1928

CHF 1650.–

Baumann, Fraumünsterstr. 17

1928

CHF 2600.–

40 Jahre Seiden-Grieder

1929

CHF 2190.–

Svizzera, La Linea elettrica del Sempione

1933

CHF 1570.–

Blausee, Loetschberg Bahn Railway, Berner Oberland

1934

CHF 2260.–

The Electric St-Gotthard Line, Switzerland

1935

CHF 1960.–

Les plus belles vacances, en Suisse à forfait

circa 1936

CHF 940.–

Chrysanthemen im Kunsthaus

1937

CHF 1380.–

Pro Aero, Fördert die Nationale LuftFahrt !

1938

CHF 1190.–

Switzerland, all electric trains everywhere

1940

CHF 1620.–

Glarnerland Walensee

1943

CHF 1570.–

Dahlien Schau

1946

CHF 1280.–

Sur le Bodan

1948

CHF 90.–

Vertraut dem Landesring, Mensch sein...

1959

CHF 570.–

IV Internationales Flugmeeting Zürich 1937, REPRODUCTION

circa 1980

CHF 370.–