Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 100 copies
A pencil drawing of the official poster for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics.
It was designed by German artist Franz Würbel. It features a male figure wearing a laurel wreath (symbolizing a wreathed victor) looming over the Brandenburg Gate, with the Olympic rings in the background (in this drawing I decided not to add the rings or the inscription).
It was printed in over 19 languages, including English, typically reading: “XIth Olympic Games Berlin 1936, 1st-16th August”.
Würbel’s poster “was designed to dominate and impress... [and] met the threefold objective of indicating the importance of the Olympiad, proclaiming Berlin as the host city and publicizing the Games in an effective and internationally understandable manner” (Olympic Posters p. 45).
