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…

“It is the nature of a poster to confront people in the midst of comings and goings, captivating even the most indifferent, and give each…

Innumerable posters have been designed for circuses, cabarets, magicians, actors, animal shows and human zoos. Looking back to the beginnings of posters, as early as…

“Die Fläche” has joined “Ver sacrum” in being regarded as one of the most important publications in Vienna’s art scene around 1900. It is filled…

“Innovative posters affixed to the façade of the horticultural society building have seized the attention of passers-by on the Ringstraße since they first appeared this…

Many years ago, I first noticed Jianping He’s posters. The tripartite poster for Antalis (2005) is the first of his works that I remember vividly….

“Any artist who wishes to work in the world of advertisements must be an experienced, versatile expert in the practicalities of real life who is…

Three English friends go on a bicycle tour across Germany in the 1890s and have a number of experiences together, all of which are amusing….

Over the years, many names have become inseparably associated with the Berliner Ensemble. Bertolt Brecht. Helene Weigel, and Heiner Müller are just a few of…

The extent to which Vienna’s School of Arts and Crafts (Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule) was ahead of the aesthetic perceptions of its time in the early 20th…

”Charming and gracious, coupled with a fine feeling for decorative style: such are the works of this artist, whose gentle, female hand lends her pictures…

In Austria, political posters were in existence before the First World War, but they were essentially just filled with text. It was a different story…

Henry Steiner is one of the most influential graphic designers of our time. Brigitte Willinger has written a vivid and interesting portrait of the renowned…

These two conceptions would seem to hang together like Siamese twins. Every expert would say so and every reader would find it paradoxical to attempt…

“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,”…

“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…