About the artist:

Hans Unger was born in Prenzlau, Germany. He went to school in Berlin until 1933. In the mid-1930s he studied graphic art with the poster designer Jupp Wiertz in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to South Africa. When the Second World War broke out he enlisted in the South African army. He was captured in North Africa by the Italian army but managed to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp when Italy's war effort collapsed. He moved to London in 1948, working as a poster designer and graphic artist for a number of companies and organisations including London Transport and the Post Office