Austria Lake Hallstatt - Vintage Austrian Tourist Poster

Plätten traditional long wooden boats of the Salzkammergut.

The Original Poster was issued by Osterreichische Verkehrswerbung and created for the Austrian Tourist Board c. 1935-1938. This wonderful a colour lithograph was printed in Austria by Steyrermuhl, Vienna, Austria.

Hallstätter See or Lake Hallstatt is a lake situated  in the Salzkammergut, Austria and is named  after Hallstatt, a small market town famous for its salt mining. It’s history goes back to  prehistoric times and is the origin of the world's oldest, from 1556, still operational industrial pipeline, used to transport brine to Bad Ischl and on to Ebensee. Plätten traditional long wooden boats, similar to the Ventian style gondolas are a large part of Salzkammerguts culture

Paul Kirnig studied and taught graphic design at the ‘Kunstgewerbeschule’ in Vienna, now known as the University of Applied Art. He created a small number of posters. In the mid 1930´s he opened a small studio to take on private commercial art work to supplement his teaching income. Of the many of the commissions, his works for the Austrian Tourist Board stand out amongst the rest. In an essay (‘The art of today and tomorrow’ written in 1930, unpublished), Paul Kirnig wrote: ‘The artist who creates, being in close contact with nature, feels the harmony of the entire universe in each of its parts and strives to materialise that feeling by symbolising as it were the rhythm of the universe in his work, thus creating a work of art.....’

Details:

• The 'Austria Lake Hallstatt' Poster has been created from an original poster.
• The poster is digitally printed on high quality paper with vivid colour and exceptional detail.
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Poster Sizes:

• A4 [210 × 297mm] - [8.3" X 11.7"]
• A3 [297 × 420mm] - [11.7" X 16.5"]
• A2 [420 × 594mm] - [16.5" X 23.4"]
• A1 [594 × 841mm] - [23.4" X 33.1"]
• A0 [841 × 1189mm] - [33.1" X 46.8"]