On exhibit at the Reinhold-Brown Gallery are rare masterworks in the history of poster design that
present a concise but revealing overview of the evolution and major
manifestations in the history of the poster medium. Nearly all
the works on display are either unique in the world or of extreme
rarity. In every instance each represents the pinnacle of
achievement in its genre, be it Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession, Art
Deco, Russian Constructivism, avant-garde typography and
photomontage, or Pop Art.
Among the works recently on view are one of the earliest and most influential
examples of modern design, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s poster for
“The Scottish Musical Review” (1896); two original, unpublished
designs for posters by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser for the
opening of the first Wiener Werkstätte showroom in 1905; the
quintessential Russian Constructivist photomontage poster by
Nikolas Prusakov for the film “Khaz Push”; an innovative typographic
poster from 1928 by the Bauhaus-trained graphic designer Theo
Ballmer; masterpieces by the three greatest Art Deco poster
designers A.M. Cassandre, Charles Loupot and Jean Carlu; two Swiss
typographic-Neo-Constructivist posters by the Brazilian-born painter
Mary Viera and the great Swiss graphic designer Joseph
Mueller-Brockmann; the rare, signed letterpress poster that Claes
Oldenburg designed to advertise his legendary 1961 shop and
installation called “The Store”; and a signed, limited-edition
poster printed on foil by Roy Lichtenstein for the 1966 New York
Film Festival.
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