Hans Sandreuter (1850-1901) The Centaur Exhibition Poster 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, monogrammed in the plate, framed
rentoilé
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. Félix Vallotton, recalls in the report of the Basel jubilee exhibition in 1897, for the Revue Blanche, of which we present the exhibition poster, illustrated with a centaur by Boecklin, how much for Böcklin "painting is a chosen task", he who was "haunted in turn by all dreams, by all ambitions: ambitions of form, of color and of expression".