Poster for the Beethoven Festival 1983

Prechtl’s poster for the Beethoven Festival in Bonn in 1983 humorously illustrates a different side of the composer. It shows him with top hat and frock coat, the way he liked to stroll through the streets of Vienna and environs.
He is carrying a colourful cornucopia of music under his arm and the picture of a woman in his hand. The look on his face contradicts the seriousness of his down-turned lips, as if he were bashfully indicating the sources of his art: women, nature, walks.