Hans Unger: Posters and book cover

• Reference:GB 2610 GMA A95
• Dates of Creation:1950 - 1959
• Physical Description:
  9 items

• Scope and Content

  8 x colour posters for the Danish Bacon Company

  1 x book cover for Edward Crankshaw's 'Khrushchev's Russia', London, Penguin 1959

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Hans Unger, designer, mosaicist, born in Germany. He studied poster design in Jupp Wiertz's studio in Berlin from 1934 - 1935. He emigrated to South Africa and worked in Cape Town as a freelance designer. He moved to London in 1948 and between 1950 and 1974 produced many posters for the London Underground and did work on the Blackhorse Road tube station. He was a member of the Art Workers Guild from 1966 - 1969. He was represented by Artists' Partners which represented such seminal figures as Tom Eckersley of London Underground fame, fashion illustrators such as Beryl Hartland, and "drawers" such as Susan Einzig — illustrators whose work was high profile throughout contemporary publishing and advertising. Artists' Partners supplied much of the artwork used to advertise the Festival of Britain in 1951.

• Access Information

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• Conditions Governing Use

  All material is subject to copyright restrictions. Requests to reproduce original material should be made to the National Galleries of Scotland’s Image Licensing team (https://www.nationalgalleries.org/copyright-image-licensing).

• Custodial History

  Presented anonymously 2007