Jörg Hamburger

35 x 50 in. (90 x 128 cm)

Offset

Condition: There are several very light marks, possibly pencil lines, in the white areas of the poster.

This striking poster by Jörg Hamburger advertises a 1989 exhibition at the Zurich Design Museum on Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968). Giedion chronicled and championed modernist architecture in Europe and the US.

Hamburger’s poster juxtaposes an image of Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International from 1919-20, a seminal but unrealized work of Russian Constructivism, with Borromini’s drawing of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, a 17th century building at the University of Rome. The two building designs show the continuity and change in architectural style over a nearly 300 year interval.