Hans Sandreuter, The Centaur - Exhibition Poster For The Jubilee Of The Painter Arnold Boecklin

Hans SANDREUTER (1850-1901) * The Centaur - Exhibition poster for the jubilee of the painter Arnold Boecklin (1827-1901) at the Basel Museum, 1897 Lithographed poster printed in colors printed by C. Wolf & Sohn in Munich framed canvas (on view) 100 x 60 cm Hans Sandreuter, born in Basel, is a Swiss painter of the German symbolist movement of the late 19th century. After secondary studies in Basel, Hans Sandreuter began training in lithography in 1867. After working as a lithographer in Nuremberg and Verona and studying for six months with Achille Carrillo, he returned to Basel in 1872. In 1873, he completed his training at a private art school in Munich where he met Arnold Böcklin; Hans Sandreuter was Böcklin's closest disciple. He was a creator in monumental decorative art. He designed graphic art, stained glass and furniture. Sandreuter was "also, while being a committed and critical companion, a supporter of the art nouveau of his generation1". Some of the façades and wall decorations he designed can still be seen, for example, the façade of the Bärenzunft and the wall pieces of the Schmiedezunft in old Basel. In 1897, he went to Florence to receive the "Arnold Böcklin" medal from Arnold Böcklin himself and then organized a Böcklin exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel on 19 September 1897, the poster of which is presented here.