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Armin Hofmann, Stadttheater Basel, 1961, Scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, 4, 1962

Armin Hofmann and the Stadttheater Basel by Jürg Federspiel, 1962

Armin Hofmann’s publicity for the Stadttheater Basel. The client, in this case, the Municipal Theater of Basel, refused to listen to narrow-minded critics, in spite of the fact that as a state-subsidized enterprise it is accountable to public opinion.

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