Poster collection of the Basel School of Design
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 31 '55.8 " N , 7 ° 36' 35.7" E |
| place | Munchenstein |
| Visitor address | Freilager-Platz 6 4142 Münchenstein |
| founding | 1896 |
| ISIL | CH-000957-X |
| carrier | Basel School of Design |
| Website | www.plakatsammlungbasel.ch |
The poster collection at the Basel School of Design is a public special collection of posters .
collection
The collection contains posters from the fields of culture, politics, business and consumer goods. The inventory was and is constantly being expanded through new acquisitions. The focus of the collecting activity today is on Swiss posters with local, content and design relationships with north-western Switzerland . In 2019 the collection comprised around 90,000 posters.
history
The beginnings of the poster collection go back to 1896. After a successful exhibition with posters from the holdings of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Strassburg in the Gewerbemuseum Basel , which is affiliated with the General Trade School , work began on building up its own collection. In 1905 this had grown to around 600 posters. In 1916 the art historian commissioned Hermann Kienzle , the new director of the school, Max Bucherer to the "establishment of a pattern and an exemplary collection of applied graphics."
The move of the trade school together with its important arts and crafts department, later the school for design , from the shared building on the corner of Petersgraben-Spalenvorstadt in 1961 marked a major turning point in the history of the trade museum and thus also of the poster collection had previously been heavily focused on teaching at school, lost a large part of her motivation. In 1986, the separation of the trade school and the trade museum was also implemented on a legal level. After the museum had to close in 1996, the poster collection was organizationally integrated into the School of Design, but initially remained in its original location. The move to the Dreispitz area took place in 2018 .
See also
- Poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
- Swiss poster collection (collective catalog)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Poster collection of the Basel School of Design. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
- ^ Rolf Thalmann: An optical memory of Switzerland. One hundred years of the Basel poster collection . In: Basler Stadtbuch . 1996, p. 135-139 ( baslerstadtbuch.ch ).
- ^ Maja Müller: The Basler Gewerbemuseum 1878–1996 . In: Basler Stadtbuch . 1996, p. 140–144 ( baslerstadtbuch.ch ).