Sporthaus Schuster
Artist
Carl Kunst
Germany, 1884 - 1912
Printer
Reichhold & Lang, München
Germany
Datec. 1912
Dimensions31 1/4 x 24 in. (79.4 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.131
DescriptionThis is one of many posters designed by German artist Carl Kunst promoting stores selling winter clothing and sporting equipment. He was a keen mountaineer, which made him especially well-suited to such projects. During his short life, he designed posters for all kinds of other products too, as well as postcards and illustrated books. Kunst had trained at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich and in the drawing department of the Royal Academy of Arts there. Sporthaus Schuster of Munich, founded in 1913, was known for its ski equipment and the kind of specialist mountaineering gear shown in the foreground of the image here, reflecting the proximity of the city to the Bavarian Alps---and it still exists. He also produced quite a few posters for Kunstanstalt Reichhold & Lang, the venerable Munich print publisher, founded in 1887, that hired him to design this one. It must have been one of the artist’s last designs since the store officially opened the year after his death.On View
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