Vaudeville Act 4 – Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastic Poses – Moriz Jung (1907) – Vintage Lithograph Poster Print

Moriz Jung’s Vaudeville Act 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastic Poses is a wonderfully eccentric piece of Wiener Werkstatte graphic design, presenting a troupe of performers arranged in an exaggerated tableau of contorted bodies. The figures appear almost like living sculptures, their simplified forms overlapping into a dense decorative composition of ochre, black, white, and vivid blue. Concentric circles highlight parts of the performers’ bodies, adding an intentionally artificial, almost diagrammatic quality to the scene, while the checkerboard border and bold lettering heighten its theatrical character.

Created in 1907, the work belongs to Jung’s series of colorful Wiener Werkstätte postcards depicting imaginary vaudeville acts and performers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies it as Varieténummer 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastische Posen, published by the Wiener Werkstatte as postcard no. 82. Jung combines caricature, decorative pattern, and avant-garde typography to turn the supposed performance into a highly stylized graphic spectacle. The result is an especially good example of the playful modernism and experimental commercial design associated with the Wiener Werkstatte in Vienna.

 

🖨️ Print features:

– Made with museum-grade archival paper for excellent printing fidelity and vibrant color reproduction

– Paper weight: 189 g/m2

– For indoor use only

– Care instructions: If the print does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, dry cloth.

– Please note: Due to the production process of these posters, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance +/- 1/16″

 

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– Printed and shipped from the U.S.

– Ships in a sturdy mailing tube, frame not included

– As our items are unique and made to order, we can only accept a return or exchange in the event that an item arrives damaged or misprinted. We cannot accept returns if you order the wrong size or change your mind. Any return requests must be made within 14 days of receiving the order.

 

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