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
“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…
“Does Life at no point realise the Poster?”
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….
Karl-Heinz Drescher and the Berliner Ensemble
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…
Emma Schlangenhausen: Modern advertisements
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…
Hansi Lehner-Rosner (1903–1993)
”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…
War Posters and their Influence on the Visual Culture of the Political Propaganda in the First Austrian Republic
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 – Bridging East and West
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…
Mihály Biró: “Art“ or Political Posters
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…
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…