Ella Fitzgerald at Rheinhalle Düsseldorf concert poster
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Apr 21st, 2024. Artwork published in
February 1968
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In 1968, Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) was on tour in Europe, possibly with material from her upcoming album Misty Blue. For the concert at Rheinhalle (today: Tonhalle) Düsseldorf on February 8, Günther Kieser designed a colorful poster in DIN A1 landscape format.
For “ELLA” and “’68”, he used a typeface that might have originated around 1899 at the Theinhardt foundry under the name Viktoria. In 1967, Kieser already worked with Viktoria for his Soul Time poster.
In January 2024, Michele Casanova released his open-source digitization under the name DisSenso.
