The painting this poster advertised was 120 metres long and 14 metres high, and it is now lost.
Louis Apol's cyclorama of Nova-Zembla was shown at the Panorama building on the Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam from 1896. Apol had sailed to the Arctic archipelago in 1880 aboard the polar schooner Willem Barents. He spent four months there and turned his sketches into the panorama sixteen years later. The Rijksmuseum (RP-P-1912-2384) tentatively attributes the poster to Bernard Willem Wierink.
On the poster
A white polar bear, drawn in thick fur-like strokes, bears down on a seal against a radiating burst of cadmium red. grey-green Arctic ice formations rise on either side under a deep navy sky. The title "NOVA-ZEMBLA" dominates the upper field in yellow shadow lettering. Below, "AMSTERDAM PLANTAGE" in bold red serif gives the venue, and a flowing red script names the painter: "Louis Apol".
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

