1972 Munich - Horst Antes

1970

Horst Antes 

640 x 1010mm

Unbacked

Good condition

Second series, issued 1970, unlimited edition

The graphic imagery of the 1972 Games is well regarded. Posters were high on the agenda for the Olympic Committee and planning was underway as early as 1967 to produce an art series using the best artists of the day. In 1968 a partnership was formed with the publishing house F. Bruckmann KG, Munich, setting up the company Edition Olympia 1972, GmbH. The project ran to five series, each made up of seven posters. Three grades of poster were produced in a hierarchy of values and the majority of the surviving posters are from the unlimited edition printed on poster paper.

Horst Antes is a German artist and sculptor famous for his 'Kopffüssler' (Head-footer). His works are exhibited around the world and he is represented in all the most important German collections.