Joseph Urban – From Vienna to New York
What is the connection between ‘The New School for Social Research’ in New York and Vienna’s ‘Rathauskeller’, the cellar restaurant in its city hall? The…
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Julius Klinger and The Chaos of the Arts
“Does Life at no point realise the Poster?”
Karl-Heinz Drescher and the Berliner Ensemble
Emma Schlangenhausen: Modern advertisements
Hansi Lehner-Rosner (1903–1993)
War Posters and their Influence on the Visual Culture of the Political Propaganda in the First Austrian Republic
Henry Steiner – Bridging East and West
Mihály Biró: “Art“ or Political Posters
Censored: Gustav Klimt
“The arrangement of the first exhibition by the Vereinigung bildender Künstler Oesterreichs (Secession) [Association of Visual Artists in Austria] has now nearly reached its completion,”…
Joseph Binder – Colour follows function
“Binder was a city lover whose thinking was entirely modern.” These were the words of Joseph Binder’s wife and long-standing companion Carla Binder, as she…
Ottokar Mascha, a Viennese Connoisseur
Ottokar Mascha was the first in Austria to deal with the subject of “Posters”, not only as a skilled collector, but also as a well-informed…
Heinrich Lefler
The Vienna Court Opera was destined for change once Gustav Mahler became its new director in 1897. Keen on reforming this institution and getting it…
JULIUS KLINGER: THE HOLY EVERY DAY
We reproductionists love that Every Day on which our sober work celebrates fantastic feasts. On holidays the prearranged thoughts of those who work without fire…
Robert Haas: From “Officina Vindobonensis” to the “Ram Press”
“Multi-talented” and “versatile” are probably the best words to describe the Viennese-born artist, Robert Haas. His interests ranged from photography, his first love, to calligraphy…
Hermann Kosel: From Rikola to the Buchkontor
The Vienna-born poster and commercial graphic artist Hermann Kosel (1896–1983) had, since 1921, business ties with the Rikola publishing company, which was founded in December…