Georges Darel (1892-1943): “L'Armee Suisse” Recruitment Poster WW1 SEE/READ ALL-

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Georges Darel (1892-1943): “L'Armee Suisse”: Print- Recruitment Poster WW1.
This print had been hanging in the estate of a Swiss Military Item Collector for a quarter century when the seller purchased it. Its color retention is pristine with zero foxing; it has just been custom matted, wired and ready for hanging in your den, library, office or collection.
Artist data and relevance is below. This is an ideal piece for a home office/library, or for what it is: a simply rare & attractive print.
This framed piece measures 21.5 x 17.5 inches x 1.5 thick
In French-speaking Switzerland, Georges Darel (1892-1943), one of Ferdinand Hodler's closest collaborators, produced a profoundly different poster (
The Swiss Army
). His style and his spirit are resolutely Hodlerian: the drawing is supported, the bright and warm colors, daring even like the yellow sky evoking dawn, posed in flat areas well cut. For the first time in the poster, the theme of the border guard sentinel appears, the image most used throughout the war to express the mission of the army. The monumental figure occupies most of the poster. The artist develops an effect of shadow and contrast: at sunrise, the silhouette of the soldier carrying his rifle, bayonet directed abroad, stands out against the sky and the black barbed wire against the white of the mountains. His attitude is voluntary and determined. Protective hero, his gaze goes far away. The army is attentive and stands guard. It is not shown in exercise but in its real function. The poster is direct and simple to understand. It is felt as such by the press:
Since yesterday, the public's attention has been kept in front of the display columns, by a very beautiful poster of the film "The Swiss army". It is the work of the Geneva painter Georges Darel, and is fully worthy of the magnificent film that it illustrates- 1918
This is an excellent VINTAGE reproduction of a Swiss Military recruitment poster of late WW 1.
Shipping Data:
This framed piece measures 24 x 24 inches’ x 4 thick weight est. bubble wrapped, buffered: 6.5#