Alex Diggelmann
Art competitions Alex Walter Diggelmann (20 August 1902 – 21 November 1987) was a Swiss graphic artist and book designer best known for his sports posters. Diggelmann won three medals in the Olympic Games. Diggelmann won a gold medal in 1936 for a poster entitled Arosa I Placard, and a bronze one and a silver one in 1948 for two commercial posters, the "World Championship for Cycling Poster" and the "World Championship for Ice Hockey Poster".
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Alex Diggelmann
- Born
- 1902 · Unterseen.
- Died
- 1987 · Zurich.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- designer
- Education
- Académie Colarossi · Académie Julian · Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
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Art competitions Alex Walter Diggelmann (20 August 1902 – 21 November 1987) was a Swiss graphic artist and book designer best known for his sports posters. Diggelmann won three medals in the Olympic Games. Diggelmann won a gold medal in 1936 for a poster entitled Arosa I Placard, and a bronze one and a silver one in 1948 for two commercial posters, the "World Championship for Cycling Poster" and the "World Championship for Ice Hockey Poster".
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He also designed the trophy presented annually to the winners of the UEFA Cup. He is only one of two artists who won three medals in art competition. The other was the Danish writer Josef Petersen.
Alex Diggelmann studied at Académie Colarossi, Académie Julian and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Places of work recorded in the authority are Zurich. Work by Alex Diggelmann is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Basel Poster Collection.
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1902
Alex Diggelmann born at Unterseen.
1982
"Digg" und der Sport: zum 80. Geburtstag von Alex W. Diggelmann digitised by DataCite (Buchdruckerei W. Gassmann AG, 2501 Biel).
1987
Alex Diggelmann died at Zurich.
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- 1.Der Olympiasieger und sein Lehrmeister. In: Jungfrau Zeitung. 14. August 2012 (jungfrauzeitung.ch).
- 2.Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler. Diggelmann, Alex W. 1990. 3-7231-0404-5.
- 3.Alex Walter Diggelmann: Pontresina – Engadin – Diavolezza. Online-Katalog Plakatsammlung SfG Basel. 1933.
- 4.Vollmer, S. 115.
- 5.Vollmer, S. 115.
- 6.Vollmer, S. 114f.
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