{"id":13303,"date":"2017-04-28T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:08:22","slug":"first-ever-u-s-julius-klinger-graphic-design-exhibition-fall-2017-at-the-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/first-ever-u-s-julius-klinger-graphic-design-exhibition-fall-2017-at-the-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"First-ever U.S. Julius Klinger graphic design exhibition, Fall 2017 at The Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age <\/em>Celebrates a Founding Figure of Modern Poster Art<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nInfluential advertisements, illustrations, prints, and more parallel the rise of graphic design as a profession<\/em><\/p>\n

MIAMI BEACH (April 27, 2017)<\/strong> \u2014 Starting this fall, The Wolfsonian\u2013Florida International University calls attention to the transformative designs of one of history\u2019s leading graphic artists in Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age<\/em> (Oc\u00adtober 6, 2017\u2013April 1, 2018). The exhibition will outline the development of the Austrian designer\u2019s career through over 100 posters, prints, drawings, and book illustrations from The Wolfsonian\u2019s collection and beyond\u2014commissions that reveal Klinger\u2019s knack for infusing beautiful imagery with wit and an astute marketing sensibility. Their display in Miami Beach will mark the first U.S. solo exhibition devoted to the designer, and a unique opportunity for visitors outside of Europe to experience so much of his work in one place.<\/p>\n

\u201cJulius Klinger was a designer whose work resonates today for its charm, flair, humor, and variety,\u201d said Jeremy Aynsley, exhibition curator and professor of design history at the University of Brighton. \u201cHe was an outstanding draughtsman who captured the elegance of the times in his posters, yet also made strongly satirical images that engaged with the issues of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klinger (1876\u20131942) was born near Vienna to a Jewish family and established his reputation as a prominent graphic artist, illustrator, typographer, and prolific writer closely associated with the Vienna Secession art movement and Jugendstil, the German derivation of Art Nouveau. Working in Austria, Germany, and briefly the United States, Klinger helped create or modernize the image and identities of countless clients ranging from theaters and cabarets, art manufacturers, and commercial companies to public agencies over the course of three decades. He died at an extermination camp near Minsk after the Nazis\u2019 annexation of Austria during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Central to Julius Klinger <\/em>will be the strong, striking graphic elements that became his signature style and reflect his direct approach to communication: bold color; minimalist, clear visuals stripped of unnecessary detail; and linear compositions influenced by Japanese prints and calligraphy. Klinger distinguished commercial art, serving a client\u2019s goals and messages, from fine art, which he argued prioritized self-expression\u2014a trajectory that paved the way for the emergence of graphic design, or \u201cReklamekunst\u201d (advertising art), as a specialized field.<\/p>\n

Designs on view at The Wolfsonian include:<\/p>\n