Yohanan Simon, painter and one of the most important posters designer in Israel  was born in 1905, Berlin. From 1927 he lived mainly in France. Beginning in 1934 he worked in New York for the magazine Vogue. In 1936 he immigrated to Mandate Palestine. Until 1953 he was a member of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. He executed a number of murals for Israeli ships, public buildings and hotels, including Bank of Israel offices in New York and a hotel in Côte d’Ivoire. He also illustrated books and designed stage sets.

Awards and Prizes
1945-46 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv
1951 Congress of Jewish Culture Prize, New York City
1952 Zichron Yaakov Prize
1953 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv
1956 Israel Olympic Committee Prize
1958 Ramat Gan Prize
1960 Histadrut Prize
1961 The Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv Jaffa, Tel Aviv
Outdoor and Public Art
1951 Congress of Jewish Culture, New York City
1956 Israel Olympic Committee
Selected Exhibitions
1948 Venice Biennale
1958 Venice Biennale
1953 São Paulo

Description:-

Extremely rare pre-Israel Poster by the one of most Important Designers – Yochanan Simon. The poster was issued by the Workers party amp; HaShomer HaTzair celebrating 30 years to the October revolution in the USSR.

On the bottom it says “Everyone who seeks peace and Socialism should stand by the first Workers State”. Social realism

Rare Vintage Israeli Poster of Al HaMishmar Daily Newspaper 1948 Read signed and distributed

Al HaMishmar (Hebrew: על המשמר‎‎, lit. On Guard) was a daily newspaper published in Mandate Palestine and Israel between 1943 and 1995. The paper was owned by, and affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair as well as the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine, which became Mapam after 1948. History The paper was established under the name Mishmar on 30 July 1943 as the journal of Hashomer Hatzair. At the top of the first page of every issue was the banner “For Zionism, Socialism and Brotherhood amongst Nations”. Its readership was mainly based on subscriptions from Kibbutz Artzi, Hashomer Hatzair and Mapam members. The name Al HaMishmar first appeared on the edition of 25 January 1948. Its journalists included Yoel Marcus, Eliezer Peri, Tom Segev, Shelly Yachimovich and Avi Benayahu, whilst Leah Goldberg, Avraham Shlonsky, Yehoshua Sobol and Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach were all contributors. The paper also had an Arabic version, al-Mersad, of which Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi and Muhammed Wattad were amongst the editors. Design by Yochanan Simon Social realism style.