Hans Handschin — Statement Duo | Red Swiss Art Deco Posters

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Hans Handschin — Statement Duo | Red Swiss Art Deco PostersHans Handschin (18991948) was a Swiss graphic designer and poster artist whose work in the interwar period stands among the most formally refined examples of European commercial design. His posters bold colour, sharp geometry, confident typography synthesise the Swiss design tradition with the influence of the German and French avant gardes, achieving a visual impact that was both immediately effective and formally sophisticated. His red posters are

produced for the Universal Pictures release

Some of the most powerful gallery walls bring together works from different traditions — the shock of visual contrast revealing something about each work that a single-artist display cannot

patterns are now produced under licence by the Victoria & Albert Museum and remain defining elements of British interior culture

not a poster

and craft under one roof

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and virtually every subsequent movement in Western art

producing compositions of precise geometric order

drawn from the ancient ox-herding allegory of the Zen path

His bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and kabuki actor prints are among the most widely collected works of the 20th-century Japanese print revival

butterflies

but before his Bauhaus years he produced a small body of commercial illustration work — including this extraordinary Abrikosov Chocolate advertisement

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