Wengen La Patrie Des Bon Skieurs (The Home of Good Skiers)

1952

Martin Peikert

101×63.5
25 x 40 Inches 

Yes 

Imprime En Suisse  
Oberland Bernois Suisse

Lithograph in colours printed in 1947. This is the French language version of the famous Peikert poster commissioned by the top Swiss alpine resort of Wengen. Exceptional original condition and colouration; increasingly rare.

The highly respected Swiss painter and poster artist Martin Peikert is the artist behind this fabulous Wengen skiing poster. Peikert is well known for the realism and precision of his wonderful poster illustrations. He created dozens of travel posters and skiing posters for ski resorts across the Alps.

Some of his best-known and most popular posters include his Gstaad poster featuring a couple on a ski lift heading towards ‘the moon’. His poster advertising St Moritz with a cable car heading towards the snow-covered mountain peak.

For many of his posters, Peikert used his first wife Henriette as his muse and model. One example is his Les Diablerets poster featuring a skier being pulled up a ski slope with a sprite of her shoulders. One features her travelling to a ski resort on the roof of the MOB Railway and another MOB Railway poster shows her asleep on the roof of a small Swiss chalet. One of his best in my opinion is his iconic Champery ski poster of a woman relaxing in the snow.

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