An official poster for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, signed in the plate by the artist Olle Hjortzberg and dated 1911, a lithograph in 7 colours,

An official poster for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, signed in the plate by the artist Olle Hjortzberg and dated 1911, a lithograph in 7 colours, produced in 16 different languages this example being in Dutch, published in Stockholm by A Bortzells Tr.A.B., the image 104 by 74cm., 41 by 29in., mounted, framed & glazed, minor paper repairs 1912 was the first Olympic Games adopted an official poster, a tradition that endures to the present day. Several sketches were put forward and the Swedish Olympic Committee chose the design by Olle Hjortzberg (1872-1959), a Professor and Director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. The design represents the March of the Nations. The poster was not distributed in some countries who deemed the design to be too ''daring', with the central athlete's modesty barely preserved by the flailing of his flag. The Dutch language version of the poster had a print run of 2,550.