One canary is doing a headstand, another seems to be walking around headless, and yet another is in the process of firing a canon. Next…

Between 1919 and 1938 Hans Neumann ran one of the most important Austrian graphic studios, with which he also achieved considerable international recognition.[1] In addition…

“I’m Sammy Slap, the bill-sticker, and you must all agree sirs, / I sticks to business like a trump, and business sticks to me sirs”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…