Raetische Bahn 1911

All aboard for the high country of Switzerland with "Raetische Bahn" (the Rhaetian Railway), a travel poster designed by Ernst Emil Schlatter in 1911. This celebrated narrow-gauge railway wound through the mountains of eastern Switzerland, carrying travelers over soaring viaducts and past alpine scenery of astonishing grandeur. In the golden age of rail tourism, posters like this one sold the romance of the journey itself, promising fresh air, breathtaking views, and the thrill of the mountains made accessible by train.

Ernst Emil Schlatter was a Swiss artist whose work captured the drama of the alpine landscape with real feeling. This design reflects the confident graphic style of early twentieth-century travel advertising: bold, simplified forms, luminous color, and a sweeping sense of place distilled into an image built to stir wanderlust from across a station hall. The mood is crisp and exhilarating, all clear mountain light and open vistas, the visual promise of the great Swiss journey. It is the kind of poster that makes you want to pack a bag and board the next train into the peaks.

Each print is produced as an archival fine-art reproduction on museum-grade 189gsm archival matte paper using pigment inks. The smooth matte surface handles broad skies and fine detail with equal ease, its non-reflective finish keeping the image readable in any light, while pigment inks preserve those cool alpine blues and bright whites for the long haul. The result is a print with genuine presence, faithful to the punch of the original lithograph.

Five sizes are available to fit your wall and frame: 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30, and 24x36 inches. Smaller formats suit a hallway, chalet nook, or gallery cluster, while the larger prints command attention over a bed, desk, or mantel. Alpine railway art brings a bracing, adventurous energy to a room and pairs naturally with rustic mountain interiors and clean, modern spaces alike.

As a gift it is a natural for train and railway enthusiasts, skiers and hikers, Switzerland lovers and Alpophiles, and collectors of vintage travel posters. In a simple wood or black frame it reads as considered vintage travel design; grouped with other destination posters it anchors a wanderlust-themed wall beautifully. It makes a thoughtful present for the friend who dreams of mountains and journeys. For anyone planning a Swiss holiday or reliving one, it keeps the memory and the anticipation of the high alpine route gloriously alive on the wall, day after day.

Your poster ships rolled in protective packaging, ready to frame, with no mat or frame included so you can tailor the presentation to your space. Please note this is a high-quality modern reproduction made for display, not an original antique poster. What arrives is the exhilaration of Swiss alpine rail travel, the pull of the high peaks captured in classic poster style and reprinted to a framing-worthy standard. Hang it where you want a window onto the mountains, and let the Rhaetian Railway carry a little alpine grandeur onto your wall.