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"Zero" Hans Schleger (1898 - 1976)
Wait till it stops before getting on or off a bus or tram
Original vintage poster 76 x 49 cm Hans Schleger was born in Germany. After the First World War, he studied at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule. After working in Berlin, he moved to New York in 1924 and began to work as a graphic designer. He returned to Berlin in 1929 and began working for the British advertising agency Crawfords, where he met Edward McKnight Kauffer, who introduced him to Jack Beddington (the head of advertising at Shell Mex BP). He moved to London following the rise of Hitler and produced a series of posters for Shell Mex. During the Second World War he worked for the British Government. He later taught at the Chicago Institute of Design and subsequently designed the trademarks of the John Lewis Partnership, Penguin, Deutsche Bank, and the Edinburgh Festival. Condition: generally very good, the odd gentle crease; not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Raymond Myerscough Walker (1908 - 1984)
To Build for Prosperity - Save Now
Original vintage poster 74 x 49 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee London, the Scottish Savings Committee Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee Belfast. Printed For HM Stationery Office By Thomas Forman and Sons Ltd, Nottingham. This posters makes use of Myerscough Walker's original painting of a church bombed in the Blitz, with new buildings being constructed behind. Even in the face of war and destruction, Britain builds itself up to prosper - and, by saving, so can we. Myerscough Walker was an architectural draughtsman. He trained at Leeds School of Art and went on to the Architectural Association in London. In 1931 he won the Tite prize and was celebrated in his career for his skill as a draughtsman – as well as architect, writer, artist, sculptor and stage designer. He worked with Berhold Lubetkin, the significant modernist architect, for several years. Condition: generally very good; the odd gentle crease. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage posters. -
Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)
Interior (1973)
Lithograph 36 x 30 cm (paper size 77 x 57 cm) Signed 'Grant' and numbered 9/90 in pencil; part of the Penwith Portfolio. Published by Penwith Galleries, St Ives in 1973 with works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Peter Lanyon, Alan Davie, Merlyn Evans, John Piper, Ben Nicholson, Robert Adams, Bernard Leach, Michael Rothenstein, and F E McWilliam. An excellent example of Duncan Grant's late work. Duncan Grant was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. He was a painter and also designed textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Condition: generally very good; a few light handling creases in margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more Modern British Art. -
Henrik Bloch (born 1931)
Bakken in Wonderful Copenhagen (1965)
Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Bakken (short for Dyrehavsbakken) is the world's oldest amusement park, located just out of Copenhagen. This poster was designed to promote tourism to Copenhagen and Denmark more widely, and features a pierrot clown smiling above a happy crowd of Bakken visitors. Condition: generally very good; a few very short edge tears and a little soft creasing bottom right. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
José Ortega (1921 - 1990)
Romanische Kunst Spanien (1960s)
Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Printed in Madrid for the Publications de la Direccion General del Turismo. Ortega's poster for the Spanish tourist board promotes the Romanesque art of Spain. This edition of the poster was produced for circulation in Germany. José García Ortega was born in Arroba de los Montes and was a member of the Communist Party. He worked as a painter and sculptor, studying at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 1953 he went to France to study art, funded by a French government scholarship. He returned to Spain throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and became a commercially successful artist. Some of his most famous designs include the posters which the Spanish tourist board commissioned from him circa 1960. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Grächen, 1617 m (1969)
Original vintage poster 101 x 64 cm A beaming skier holds a map of Grächen, encouraging us to plan our next skiing trip there. Voluminous hair, a lack of helmet, turtleneck jumper and leather gloves mark the poster out as fabulously 1960s. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Foire Internationale de Hanover
Original vintage poster 84 x 59 cm This poster with its highly modern logo advertises the 1960 Hanover Fair. British military authorities organised the trade fair as a bolster to Germany's post-war economy. Over 1,000 exhibitors showed a selection of items made in Germany for overseas export. This version of the poster was designed for display in France. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Jeux de la Passion Oberammergau (1960)
Original vintage poster 100 x 63 cm Printed in Germany. This magnificent poster advertises the Passion Play (an outdoor play telling the Easter story) held every ten years in Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps. Tradition tells that the town was struck with plague in 1633; the townsfolk vowed that they would perform a Passion Play every ten years as a symbol of thanks to God if the plague would end, which it did. At the turn of the twentieth century, improved railways across Europe meant that people from outside the Alps could travel to see the Passion Play in Oberammergau. This poster was designed for publication in France, to encourage the French to come to see the play. Condition: generally very good; a few tiny repaired edge tears. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
France - les vins de Bourgogne Le Clos de Vougeot Cote d'Or
Original vintage poster 61 x 40 cm An original poster depicting the Château du Clos de Vougeot vineyard in Burgundy during the grape harvest. Men and women pick the grapes outside the Château. Standing in the very heart of Burgundy's vineyards, Clos de Vougeot was originally a wine farm, built in the 12th century by monks from the nearby Abbey of Cîteaux. In the 16th century, a Renaissance style château was added to the existing buildings. Even though the Chateau du Clos de Vougeot does not produce wine anymore, it stays the symbol of a millenary of Burgundy's History. Condition: generally very good, small crease to top corner. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for more original vintage posters. -
Johannes 'Joan' Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
Comitatus Northumbria, Vernacular Northumberland (1662)
Engraving with later hand-colouring 43 x 52 cm A decorative map of Northumberland by the celebrated Dutch mapmaker and artist Joan Blaeu, (son of the cartographer Willem Blaeu). Crests of the local gentry appear in the top right hand corner. Blaeu moved to Amsterdam in 1920 to join the family firm of mapmakers. In 1635, the business published the Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus in two volumes - the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century, and the venture for which the Blaeu were most famed. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638; Joan became the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company, as his father had been before him. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other maps. -
Hugh Casson (1910 - 1999)
Caius Court, Gonville and Caius College (1992)
Lithograph 31 x 44 cm Signed and numbered 358/500, both in pencil. Casson's depiction of Gonville and Caius, with sun slanting into the 16th-century Caius Court. Members of the college stroll through the court. Sir Hugh Casson was educated at Eastbourne College; St John’s College, Cambridge; and the Bartlett School of Architecture. Trained in the 1930s in the early modernist style, he taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture. After employment as a camoufleur during World War 2 by the Air Ministry, in 1948 he was appointed as director of architecture for the Festival of Britain. A close friend of the Royal Family, he undertook designs for the 1953 coronation, designed the interior of the Royal Yacht Britannia (“The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea”), and taught the young Charles III to paint in watercolours. Amongst his architectural achievements are the Elephant House at London Zoo, the 1978 redevelopment of Bristol Docks, the Raised Faculty Building for The University of Cambridge, and a building for the Royal College of Art. He published a number of illustrated books, of which Casson’s Oxford and Casson’s Cambridge are probably the best known. A limited edition series of prints was produced from the paintings. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. -
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John Piper (1903-1992)
Three Somerset Towers (1973)
Screenprint 56 x 76 cm John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: generally very good; a little age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
War Savings are Warships / The Signal is Save
Original vintage poster 41 x 37 cm Issued by the National Savings Committee, London, the Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast. An original vintage WW2 poster encouraging Britons to save via the National Savings scheme, which would use the money to fund warships. Condition: generally very good; central fold as issued, two pin holes to top corners only. Double sided. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
National Savings calendar poster (1947)
Original vintage poster 50 x 38 cm Printed for HMSO by Marion, Son & Hall Ltd, London. An original lithographic poster advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1946. The various birds in the poster enjoy 'song and sunshine all year round' - with the implication being that those who save with National Savings will enjoy the same good fortune. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters. -
National Savings calendar poster (1946)
Original vintage poster 50 x 38 cm Printed for HMSO by Chromoworks Ltd, London. An original lithographic poster aimed at children, advertising the National Savings scheme and featuring a calendar for the year 1946. Condition: generally very good. Not backed. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other original vintage National Savings posters.
