German, English, Italian

• ISBN: 978-3-7165-1752-9
• Pages: 192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Published: 11/2012
• Illustrations: 200 illustrations
• Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm

With texts by Sigrid Barten, Hans Rudolf Bosshard, Walter G. Finkbohner, Ursula Hiestand, Bruno Kammerer, Walter Pfeiffer et al.

Posters as documents of contemporary history

Among the immense variety of printed matters, the poster is without doubt the visual designer’s supreme discipline. Every poster is a new challenge for its creator. It is a tradition of many museums, interested in cultivating a smart, artistic image, to present themselves through sophisticated posters. The volume presents the best works of René Gauch, created between 1966 and 2012. Posters by former teachers, students and colleagues complement and comment his work.

The high quality of his works springs from a fascinating interplay of image and text. The tools and stylistic devices of his work are precision, fantasy, playfulness and the will to experiment. The exhibitions advertised are long over, but the posters remain with us as witnesses of a whole era. René Gauch’s iconic posters can nowadays be found in museums and private collections worldwide.