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Salamander

Poster
1912 (designed and printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screen printed colour poster depicting three figures from the waist down walking towards the left on a green and white checkerboard floor. The three women are dressed the same, wearing black high heels and long red skirts. The company mark is stamped in green in the top right.

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view Art Deco printmakers The Art Deco design movement touched every creative medium from roughly 1910 to 1940, and prints and posters of the age were no exception. Ultimately about pleasure and modernity, the style widely reflected themes of fast-paced city life and featured bold geometric forms.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSalamander (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Screen print on paper with a cloth backing
Brief description
Poster by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden advertising the Salamander shoe company. Austria, 1912.
Physical description
Screen printed colour poster depicting three figures from the waist down walking towards the left on a green and white checkerboard floor. The three women are dressed the same, wearing black high heels and long red skirts. The company mark is stamped in green in the top right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 70cm
  • Width: 93cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • SALAMANDER (Main text in white, top left.)
  • MARKE / SALAMANDER (Logo in green. Top right.)
  • Deutsch / 12 (Artist's signature. Bottom left.)
Credit line
Accepted by H M Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007
Object history
Granville note: 'Reproduced full page in book on Wiener Werkstatt Ps.'
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.2682-2007

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
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