Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944)
'Simplon Tunnels Internationale Ausstellung'
Italy
1906
Colour lithograph
Width 50.3 cm x height 90.4 cm
Museum no. E.405-1982

This poster was the prize-winning entry in a contest to produce a poster to celebrate the opening of the Simplon Tunnel through the Alps in 1906. It was printed in several languages. Lopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944) often used naked figures featuring romantic and mythological elements. Here the winged helmet suggests speed and the muscled torso indicates man's triumphal feat of engineering.