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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Plakat — the Object Poster
Zoologischer Garten München
Ludwig Hohlwein · Munich Zoo (Zoologischer Garten München), 1912
What it is
Ludwig Hohlwein made this 1912 lithograph for the Munich zoo, which had opened only the year before as the Zoologischer Garten München and later became Tierpark Hellabrunn.
Why it matters
It was printed by G. Schuh & Cie. in Munich at roughly 125 by 91 centimetres. The design is pure Hohlwein: silhouetted masses of flat colour doing the work an outline would normally do, lettering set as a solid block rather than decoration. He was the German poster designer of his generation, and this is the commercial-lithography idiom at its most confident.
What to notice
Hohlwein's Munich zoo poster: flat lithographic slabs of colour, no outline, no fuss.
One object, one word, and nothing wasted.
Provenance
- School
- Plakat — the Object Poster (Various)
- Designer
- Ludwig Hohlwein
- Printer / house
- G. Schuh & Cie., Munich
- Format
- Travel poster
- Poster published
- Munich Zoo (Zoologischer Garten München), 1912
- Source
- 1stDibs
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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