Sunday’s ad is for the Brauerei Haldengut Winterthur, from 1976. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster was made for Brauerei Haldengut, in Winterthur, Switzerland, located in the Canton of Zürich. It was founded between 1841 and 42, when “Ferdinand Ernst expanded his farm ‘Haldengut’ on the southern slope of the Lindberg in Winterthur to include a stately brewery. They began brewing in 1843. In 1994, Heineken acquired the brewery, and they closed it in 1997. It’s hard to tell if that a really large dog, on the scale of Clifford the Big Red Dog, or just a very tiny keg. The ad was created fairly recently, but pays homage to earlier posters. It was created by Swiss artist Jack J. Kunz.
