The most modernist dog...

In the Modernist Magazine office we usually get together on a Friday to discuss forthcoming issues of the magazine, exhibitions and events for our forthcoming programme, and other very important stuff. Sometimes though we get together to discuss what is the most modernist of any given thing. Jack decided to get you all involved through a Twitter poll a couple months ago, which asked “What is the most modernist dog?” - and well, it seems you can’t be trusted. The most modernist dog IS NOT a Whippet, it is in fact a Dachshund, and to explain exactly why, here are some images…

Waldi was the first official Olympic mascot, created by Otl Aicher for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany

The BRIO pull along Dachshund, a classic children’s toy, created in 1958, and still the same as it ever was

1956 illustration for International Textiles by René Gruau. Gruau also created that iconic poster for Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita in 1960

This little sculpture of a Dachshund was mass produced in Italy in the late 1950s, and designed by Alfredo Barbini

This pin-up poster of Stefanie Powers starring in The Girl From U.N.C.L.E in 1966

This poster for Jacques Tati’s film Mon Oncle from 1958, with a lovely Dachshund in silhouette

This deck of playing cards from the late 1940s

and this postcard from the USSR. Need we say more…