Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Italian painter,poster artist, illustrator and director) 1868 - 1944
Exposition Internationale Milan, 1906
Inauguration du Tunnel du Simplon
color lithograph poster
140 x 100 cm.
private collection
As a student under Adolfo Hohenstein at the Ricordi Studios, Metlicovitz quickly became a master of graphic design in his own right. He was one of the most versatile poster artists and could change his style from tender Art Nouveau imagery to statuesque allegory. When the Simplon tunnel opened in 1906, it provided the first direct rail link between Northern Europe and Italy. This poster won a competition organized to announce the opening of the tunnel. It is an allegorical image in high Liberty style of Mercury (the God of Commerce), riding on the fender of a train emerging from the darkness of the tunnel into the wide open Italian countryside, with Milan in the distance. The poster exists in two sizes, and also exists in Italian. French version. Manifesto 39 (var), Weill 141, Maitres 1900 p. 131, Capolavori Manifesto Liberty 5 (var), Wember 286 (var).
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