Garten

Vintage Zoo Poster Art

The Garten series draws on the visual tradition of early twentieth-century German zoo posters — the kind once printed for institutions like the Zoologischer Garten in Berlin. Each print features a single animal rendered in bold, graphic style with strong outlines and flat colour fields. Subjects include monkeys, zebras, hippos, baboons, and exotic birds. The aesthetic sits between vintage advertising art and natural history illustration — immediately recognisable and visually direct.

These prints work well individually or as a themed group. A set of three or four Zoologischer Garten prints creates a cohesive wall arrangement that holds together through consistent style and colour palette. They pair naturally with other vintage poster art and animal illustrations in the Kuriosis catalogue.

Format and Material Options

Every Garten motif is available as a fine art print on 225g matte fine art paper and as a canvas print on 400g cotton canvas. The paper editions preserve the crisp linework and flat colour planes that define the poster aesthetic — clean, graphic, and sharp at any viewing distance. Canvas adds surface texture that can soften the graphic edges slightly, giving the prints a more tactile, painterly quality.

Paper sizes: A3, 50x70cm, 70x100cm, and A0. Canvas sizes: 30x40cm, 50x70cm, and 70x100cm. All prints are produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks.

Framing and Styling

Oak frames complement the warm, earthy tones that run through many of these compositions and reinforce the vintage character. Black frames sharpen the graphic contrast and give the prints a more contemporary edge. Walnut brown frames sit between the two — grounded and warm without competing with the illustration.

For canvas prints, floating frames with a 5mm shadow gap add depth and a gallery-level finish. The Zoologischer Garten series works particularly well in hallways, children's rooms, or any space where bold graphic art feels at home. Browse related collections like vintage illustration and nature art for complementary pieces.