ERKER-PRESSE

In 1958, Franz Larese and Jürg Janett founded the "Galerie im Erker" in the Spisergasse, St. Gallen.
From the beginning, they used original lithograph posters to announce their exhibitions, printed by Stahlberger, St. Gallen.
In 1962, the gallery moved to the Gallusplatz and  establishment an own print shop, the: "Erker-Presse".
Until 1990 they printed a large number of posters, graphics editions and artists' books.
In the sixties there were posters for the gallery Räber bearing the imprint "Räber & Cie, Lucerne".
Those lithographs were also printed  by the Erker-Presse.
In 1973 the gallery was renamed to "Erker-Galerie".
In 1990, the Erker-Presse was taken over by their printer Urban Stoob and continued as "Stoob-Steindruck".
All lithographs from the Erker-Presse were drawn directly on the stone by the artists themselves.
Neither zinc plates, nor transfer papers were used.
There was no "artistic support" by professinal lithographers. On many posters you will find the embossing of the stone similar to etchings.