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Engelberg, Trübsee, Switzerland

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    Object Details

    Designer

    Herbert Matter, Swiss-American, 1907–1984

    Printer

    A.Trüb & Cie, Aarau, Switzerland

    Description

    Image consists of an immense gloved hand half covering and obscuring the smiling face of a young woman on the left. Her face is swathed in a unified brown tone that underscores the graphic flatness of the poster. Behind her to the left, a lone ski-lift seat swings above the distant peaks of the Alps at Engleberg, Switzerland, specifically the ski run Trübsee, identified by the sans-serif letters at the upper right. The star motif emblazoned on the glove is subtly echoed by the linear stars that seem to hover at the lower right, across the glove itself and finally, just below the tram in the air at the upper left.

    Credit Line

    Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund

    Date

    1935

    Accession Number

    2006-15-1

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Copyright Notice

    © Alex Matter

    Type

    graphic design

    Object Name

    Poster

    Type

    Poster

    Medium

    Two-color gravure on white wove paper

    Dimensions

    101.9 x 63.7 cm (40 1/8 x 25 1/16 in.)
    Mat: 109.4 × 71.8 cm (43 1/16 × 28 1/4 in.)

    made in

    Switzerland

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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44637758c-ac48-4b21-9a04-9f4c88b1c8e5

    Record ID

    chndm_2006-15-1

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