Romeo und Julia [graphic] : color pictorial wallpaper sample.
1952
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Romeo und Julia [graphic] : color pictorial wallpaper sample.
Created/published
Bramshe, Germany : Tapetenfabrik Gebr. Rasch & Co, [ca. 1952]
Description
1 print ; 46.5 x 39 cm
Note
Bookseller's descripton: Scarce sample of midcentury wallpaper designed by Tea Ernst. Founded in the late nineteenth century, German wallpaper firm Rasch won an international reputation through its collaborations with modernist designers from the Bauhaus and Vienna Secession. In the 1950s and 1960s, owner Emil Rasch commissioned wallpaper designs from artists across Europe, including Salvador DalĂ and Bruno Munari, for the International Artists Collection. Ernst's "Romeo und Julia" paper, featuring Shakespearean couples flirting amid pastel leaves and flowers, dates from early in this period. A January 1953 article in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, "Germany Sends New Wallpaper Designs to U.S." singles out Ernst's contributions for special notice: "All feature interesting textures and are charming and rather whimsical. They resemble pen drawings with the color delicately laid on in the manner of a painting more than wallpaper." An unexpected artifact of Shakespearean influence, and a fine example of midcentury popular design.
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FAST ACC 271207 (flat)