Hockey (Eis-Hockey) - Dolder Ice-skating Rink (Kunsteisbahn) Zurich - Vintage Sports Poster by Alex Diggelmann c.1935 - Japanese Unryu Rice Paper Art Print 24 x 32 in

Pacifica Island Art uses an environmentally-friendly Unryu Japanese rice paper made by the Awagami Factory in Tokushima, Japan. Unryu, which translates to 'cloud dragon paper' in Japanese, features long strands of kozo fiber and is made from natural mulberry and hemp fibers using traditional Japanese Washi techniques - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Alex Diggelmann - Alex Walter Diggelmann (1902 – 1987) was an orienteerist, balloonist, cross-bowman and one of Switzerland’s best-known graphic and poster artists. After three years as a primary teacher he began the training as a drawing teacher. He attended the vocational school in Bern, the Académie Julian in Paris and the Academy of Book Art and Graphic Art in Leipzig. Back in Switzerland, Diggelmann worked as a free-lance graphic artist in Zürich and since 1938 as a teacher at the cantonal high school. In World War II, he became famous for his Red Cross posters. For the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, he designed the official poster and two of the four official Olympic stamps. After World War II, he designed the UEFA Cup for the European Football Union, and also the medals for the World Ski Championships that are still awarded in his design. Mostly on his trips to various Western and Southern European countries he painted landscape watercolors. He also produced murals and book illustrations. Diggelmann is one of only two artists to win three medals at the Olympic Art Competitions. The other one was author Josef Petersen who won three silver medals. A picture of Diggelmann’s Medal for the Swiss Roller Skating Championships on colored glass is published in a Swiss book about the 1948 Olympics. No photo is available from the work Icarus, a bas-relief made of plaster. Well-known on this subject, however, is his graphic Icarus falls from the sky as the sun melts its wings.