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Travel Poster Wonderful Copenhagen Denmark Ducklings Viggo Vagnby
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Original vintage travel advertising poster for Wonderful Copenhagen featuring a classic image by the Danish artist Viggo Vagnby (1896-1966) of a family of ducks crossing the road with the help of a traffic policeman and watched by pedestrians and people in their car and on the trams with the buildings and monuments of Copenhagen city in the background. In 1985 this design won an international poster competition in England when it was rolled with other entries as a protective layer. Printed in Denmark by J. Chr. Sorensen & Co., Copenhagen. Viggo Vagnby , born Kristensen 4th of September 1896 in Hundborg , Thisted Municipality , died on September 20, 1966 in Skagen . He was a Danish artist and advertising artist. Viggo Vagnby first studied painting in Aarhus, where he debuted as a cubist painter. He graduated in drawing in France in the 1920s and started his own company to work with advertising pictures and as exhibition architect in Ålborg in 1925. He moved the company to Copenhagen in 1943 and later in 1953 to Skagen. He made several tourist advertisements, which became famous, among others one for Skagen from 1955, depicting a plaice as a painting palette. Most famous he became for the poster Wonderful Copenhagenfrom 1953. This iconic tourist poster shows a traffic officer who stops pedestrians, cyclists, cars and trams on a Copenhagen street to allow a duckling of kids to pass over the gadan. He decorated the Restaurant Grenen in Skagen and was an illustrator in the Danish version of Benjamin Spock's book about the child 1954, the Danish version of the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care .Fair condition, large tears in top margin. Country: Denmark. Year: 1959. Artist: Viggo Vagnby. Size (cm): 99x61.5.
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Original vintage travel advertising poster for Wonderful Copenhagen featuring a classic image by the Danish artist Viggo Vagnby (1896-1966) of a family of ducks crossing the road with the help of a traffic policeman and watched by pedestrians and people in their car and on the trams with the buildings and monuments of Copenhagen city in the background. In 1985 this design won an international poster competition in England when it was rolled with other entries as a protective layer. Printed in Denmark by J. Chr. Sorensen & Co., Copenhagen. Viggo Vagnby , born Kristensen 4th of September 1896 in Hundborg , Thisted Municipality , died on September 20, 1966 in Skagen . He was a Danish artist and advertising artist. Viggo Vagnby first studied painting in Aarhus, where he debuted as a cubist painter. He graduated in drawing in France in the 1920s and started his own company to work with advertising pictures and as exhibition architect in Ålborg in 1925. He moved the company to Copenhagen in 1943 and later in 1953 to Skagen. He made several tourist advertisements, which became famous, among others one for Skagen from 1955, depicting a plaice as a painting palette. Most famous he became for the poster Wonderful Copenhagenfrom 1953. This iconic tourist poster shows a traffic officer who stops pedestrians, cyclists, cars and trams on a Copenhagen street to allow a duckling of kids to pass over the gadan. He decorated the Restaurant Grenen in Skagen and was an illustrator in the Danish version of Benjamin Spock's book about the child 1954, the Danish version of the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care .Fair condition, large tears in top margin. Country: Denmark. Year: 1959. Artist: Viggo Vagnby. Size (cm): 99x61.5.
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