Book exhibitions
by Thomas Kadelbach
The first Pro Helvetia exhibition ever organised abroad displays books and takes place in Madrid in November 1944.
Article in Informaciones, 13.11.1944
Swiss Federal Archives E 2200.38 1000/483, Vol. 14
The first book exhibition
The first Pro Helvetia exhibition ever organised abroad displays books and takes place in Madrid in November 1944.
Article in Informaciones, 13.11.1944
Swiss Federal Archives E 2200.38 1000/483, Vol. 14
The exhibition in Madrid, 1944
The madrid newspaper ABC reports on the Swiss book exhibition.
Swiss Federal Library E 2200.38 1000/483, Vol. 14
Swiss Fortnight, 1959
The Swiss Fortnight in London, 1959, includes an exhibition of Swiss books. Pestalozzi is the ambassador of Switzerland’s achievements in the field of pedagogy and schooling.
Swiss Federal Archives E 9510.6 1991/51, Vol. 436
Book design
Book design as yet another cultural export. Poster of an exhibition, organised by Pro Helvetia in Munich, 1994.
Swiss National Library, poster collection
Swiss Books in Canada, 1998
A similar exhibition is mounted in Canada in 1998.
Swiss National Library, poster collection
Book exhibition in the Maghreb, 1982
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Coordinating Committee for the Swiss Book Abroad organises several book exhibitions. The commission was initiated by Pro Helvetia in 1972 and consisted of representants of publishing houses, booksellers and the foundation. Its task was to find a fruitful compromise between commercial interests and the necessities of cultural foreign policy. In 1982, the Commission organised an exhibition which toured the countries of the Maghreb.
Pro Helvetia Archives
