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,”…
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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…
Julius Klinger and the path to annihilation
At the beginning of November 2016, the exhibition “Final Sites before Deportation” opened at Vienna’s Heldenplatz in the Outer Castle Gate, portraying the four deportation…
Hermann Kosel as book designer. His work for the publisher Fiba-Verlag, Vienna–Leipzig
As a rule, Hermann Kosel (1896–1983)[1] (Fig. 1) is regarded and appreciated in commemorative exhibitions as a poster and commercial artist who created advertisements for…
Julius Klinger and Verlagsbuchhandlung Moritz Perles in Vienna
Born in Prague on December 15, 1844, Moritz Perles founded his bookshop in 1868 after his application for a concession as a bookseller had been…
The History of the Poster Collection of the Vienna City Library
After the Austrian National Library and the University Library, the Vienna City Library is the third largest academic library in Vienna. The focus of its…
Emil Ranzenhofer – An Early Advertising Expert
Emil Ranzenhofer was one of the first academically trained artists in Austria who made advertising his profession. But there is also another reason that makes…
Henry Steiner: “A very ‘weanerisch’ Sensibility”
Henry Steiner’s experience and reputation are international. Born in Vienna and raised in New York, he was educated at Yale – where he studied with…
The Poster and Art
“Artistic work with the medium of the poster is so interesting for me because it means that, among other things, art need no longer be…
Austrian Posters
Old posters are able to give us a very revealing insight into life as it was in days gone by. Because on account of their…
Ornament and Reduction: The Contribution of Viennese Posters to the Development of Visual Mass Communication
In our society it’s pretty hard to avoid advertising and promotion. They’re almost ubiquitous: Consumer culture, its mass production and the resulting need for a…
Julius Klinger – Poster Artist and Draftsman
Julius Klinger was among the most influential artists of the German poster era before World War I and he became one of the most important…
No Two Values are the Same: Some thoughts on valuations and assessments of posters
The valuation and assessment of posters can be carried out according to very different parameters. There is sometimes a considerable difference between the market valuation…
Symbol of the Industry: the Smoking Chimney
Posters are expressive indicators of social conditions. They directly reflect changing attitudes and values of the recipient society. The image change of the industrial development…
Ernst Deutsch-Dryden (1887 – 1938)
Vienna born Ernst Deutsch received his artistic education in his home town at the renowned School of Applied Arts. But like other artists, he was…