Dithard von Rabenau Poster

Artwork: Dithard von Rabenau
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Number of copies printed: ?

Designed by Dithard von Rabenau, this was the main poster for the Monsterkonzert. Printed on different coloured paper (at least green and red). This was seen hanging in all the main citys of Switzerland in spring 1968.


a green version


a red version


an even more red version...

Bruno Kümin Poster

Artwork: Bruno Kümin
Size: 51 x 72 cm
Number of copies printed: 200

This poster was designed by Bruno Kümin.
It was a rather expensive production and therefore only 200 of these were printed. It was not meant to be on outside walls and poles but Hans-Ruedi Jaggi gave this to his friends who run Bars, Musicshops, Boutiques etc.

 

I met Bruno Kümin in May 2018 in Zürich, we had a nice chat and he signed my Poster...

Peter Blumer Poster

Artwork: Peter Blumer
Size: 45 x 63cm
Number of copies printed ?



Have you got an original copy of this poster, or do you know somebody who does, then please contact me: jimi.aeby@sunrise.ch

Peter Blumer, an eighteen-year-old art college student from Kloten, designed the poster for the Swiss youth magazine POP. It was not intended to be put up in public and could only be ordered directly from the magazine. It cost 7 francs (including postage and packing) to acquire such a poster, which in POP, No. 26, from April 1968, is described as follows:

In Switzerland and Germany posters existed long before Gutenberg invented the printing press. Small placards made with carved and inked wooden boards, so-called wood engravings, were used by quacks to advertise their knowledge of medicines, or by the church to promote their indulgence sellers. But those times are now past! Posters have become bigger, more colorful, more beautiful. Well, not always more beautiful: these days, great pictures and joyful colors advertise instant soup, Volkswagens and Valentine's Day. How miserable and inornate, on the other hand, do the posters announcing concerts and beat clubs look. It is the sad truth: artful concert posters just do not exist. While concert agencies in the United States and England seem to want to outdo each other by designing yet fancier and fancier posters, while San Francisco Hippie artists achieve world fame with their poster art, here nothing has changed: fat, black lettering on white, at best, unichrome paper. Meanwhile in the United States and England poster stores sell thousands of elaborately designed concert or hippie posters. But why should only English-speaking pop and poster fans be able to decorate their bedrooms with fascinating pop posters? How can we get concert agencies and club managers to advertise their events with posters which appeal to us and with art design worthy of the nature of popular music?


Peter Blumer 1968

POP makes the first move by setting a good example. We commissioned a young Swiss graphic artist to create the poster which you see on the opposing page. Not only does POP present Switzerland's very first genuine concert poster, but also one of the first posters in Europe to be printed in the new DayGlo colors. (And thereby beating even American poster manufacturers by a short head.) We are, to put it mildly, rather proud of our poster. For this reason we do not want to maltreat the POP Monster poster with staples or sticky tape, and will not, as originally intended, use it for promotional purposes. No, as a treat to all POP readers we want to give you the opportunity to become the owner of a piece of psychedelic bedroom decoration. To get your own POP Monster poster, simply fill in the coupon at the bottom of the page and pay the money to our postal check account. Deliveries start on April 30!


Peter Blumer 1968

Urs Blumer: I don't know exactly how my brother got to create this poster, but I still remember him designing artwork such as this on his own initiative. I recall having one of his posters hanging in my bedroom.


a slightly different version (from the Peter Blumer Collection)

Repro from the original

The first time in all these years that I've seen one of these Posters. This was sold on eBay on May 22, 2016.

 

Wanted Poster

Artwork: ?
Size: ?
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Have you got an original copy of this poster, or do you know somebody who does, then please contact me: jimi.aeby@sunrise.ch

I first became aware that there is another poster for the Monsterkonzert when I got the photos David Dutler took at the Hotel Stoller on 31. May 1968. On one of these photos we can see a young girl asking for autographs.



There is a poster right behind Noel that I've never seen before that. All of the previous 3 posters had The Cream advertised. But as they where on tour in the U.S., obviously they couldn't be there. Jaggi replaced them with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, so therefore another poster with Mayall's name had to be printed last minute.

Years later in 2006 Niko Bauer sent me an e-mail saying:
Hi, accidentally came across this. It's a promo shot of the Nice, but the interesting part is the Monsterkonzert poster on the wall which is not included on your site in the posters section ? Looks authentic to me, it's obviously a period shot of the Nice and the poster has the text "20 uhr" so it would seem to be an original Swiss poster and not some "lookalike" printed later ?



Thanks Niko, this is exactly the poster I am looking for.