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…

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…

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…

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 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’s experience and reputation are international. Born in Vienna and raised in New York, he was educated at Yale – where he studied with…

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…

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…

If two poster artists have the same surname, it does not mean to say that they are related or even that they have the same…

In a day and age where it has become rather difficult to distinguish election campaign posters from billboards advertising shampoo, toothpaste, hand lotion or various…