Head to head
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Change we can believe in – Obama '08, United States, 2007 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
A time for greatness – Kennedy for President, US, 1960 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
Portrait of the Zurich parliamentarian Rita Fuhrer, 2001 With kind permission of the canton of Zurich © Rosina Kuhn -
François Mitterrand – a young president for a modern France, 1965 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
Lenin, Soviet Union, 1924, reproduced 1968 A. Strachov (1870–1924), Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
De Gaulle – Franco – Salazar, France, 1968 Atelier Populaire, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
Together everything is possible, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, 2007 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
Official portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, 2003 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK -
Turkmenbashi - Love me Turkmenistan, 2006 Nicolas Righetti, Rezo -
Poster for election spoof Democrazy by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, featuring actress Sharon Stone, 2007 Francesco Vezzoli, with kind permission of Galleria Franco Noero, Turin -
Got oil? Slovenia, 2004 Nenad Cizl, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection -
Arnold Schwarzenegger, US, ca. 2003 Official governor photograph -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 1992, from the photo collection Traces of Power 1991–1998, 2006 Herlinde Koelbl, Neuried, Munich
How politicians' portraits can teeter between self-promotion and biting satire.
This content was published on November 28, 2008
An exhibition at the Museum of Design in Zurich showed in 2008 how local and world political figures are depicted.
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