A new book documents the delightful postcard exchange between Johanna Fülscher and Otto Morach and calls attention to the year 1918, in which the Spanish flu killed many young men.
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Johanna Fülscher to Otto Morach, November 14, 1918.
Photo: Fülscher families
The story is pretty much exactly a hundred years old. Or better: a hundred years young. Because it has retained a lot of its original freshness and a good deal of secrets. In its present form, it takes place over fifty weeks and on a hundred artistically designed postcards, each one an original created by hand.
The protagonists of the carefully kept and now for the first time published as a whole correspondence are the two artists Otto Morach (1887–1973) and Johanna Fülscher (1893–1978). You know him. Above all, the intense early work of the Solothurner makes him an important representative of Swiss modernism – expressive, cubist-futuristic, with idiosyncratic color schemes. Morach the painter and draftsman, creator of masterful posters, from 1919 to 1953 teacher with body and soul at the Zurich School of Applied Arts.
