An advert, tipped in, to Das Plakat for July 1913 by the designer Robi-Robin and issued by the Berlin based speciality papers manufacturer Selmar Bayer. The title reads for 'posters' and 'packing'.
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An advert, tipped in, to Das Plakat for July 1913 by the designer Robi-Robin and issued by the Berlin based speciality papers manufacturer Selmar Bayer. The title reads for 'posters' and 'packing'.
Two glorious biscuit packs for the famous Hannover biscuit manufacturer of Bahlsen. The company, founded in 1889 rapidly grew as an industrialised baker of biscuits and cakes and introduced the moisture and dust proof packing known as "TET" in 1904. These glorious examples were designed by Änne Koken (1885 - 1919), a Hannover based artist and designer who became one of Bahlsen's best known designers for packaging and publicity.
They appear as a plate in the July 1913 issue of Das Plakat, the magazine that would in that year devote an issue to Koken. The packets are for Mürbteig Gebäck and Biskuit Mischung, in lettering by Koken, and are roughly translated as for Shortcrust Pastries and Sponge Cake Mixtures. The plate was printed at the print works of Franz Scherrer in Hannover.
Issued, in various forms from 1910 until 1922 Das Plakat was an influential German publication that dealt with poster and advertising art. It was closely associated with the "Verein der Plakat Freunde" - the Association of Poster Friends - the membership organisation whose 'house journal' Das Plakat was.
The July 1913 issue includes a major article on the influential American poster and graphic design artist Will H. Bradley and this bold soldier seen ont he cover is his work. William Henry Bradley (1868 - 1962) is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern poster design in the United States and his work is seen as, at this stage in his career, being influenced by Art Nouveau styles.
One of a series of posters designed by the Hagen artist and designer K. H. Schaefer and that show the various products of the Dortmund engineering company of Jucho in bold style.
C. H. Jucho, a heavy engineering company, was formed in 1877 and gained a reputation for the manufacturing of heavy engineering products, such as seen here with "kohlenklappkübel" or coal grabs, as well as the construction of steel structures such as bridges and transmission towers. Heavily involved in post-WW2 reconstruction, such as the Rhine bridges and the Westfalenhallen Dortmund , the company closed in 1974.
The poster was printed at the well known Dortmund printing house of Friedrich Wilhelm Ruhfus (1839 - 1936) who was also active in civic politics, advertising and newspapers.
A colour supplement tipped into the March 1920 issue of "Das Plakat", a special issue on the Machine Industries, and printed by the Berlin company of Hollerbaum & Schmidt. This company was a major player in German poster design and production having Lucian Bernhard as art director. This double spread shows posters designed by Bernard himself for various clients and major manufacturers.
This includes Osram, Bosch, Adler, Bleichert and L. Weil & Reinhardt AG.
The striking cover the the German poster magazine "Das Plakat" from March 1920 and that is a special issue looking at machine and heavy industry advertising. This cover, unusually against a black background, is by Carl Strohmeyer whose work appears on numerous occasions in this issue.
Das Plakat was a noted and importnat graphic design periodical, edited by Hans Sachs, that was published as a subscription magazine in the early years of the Twentieth Century. It showcased modernist poster and advertising art. This cover, to the May 1914 issue, was designed by Erich Gruner, a Leipzig based designer and architect.
From an article, in a series on "Pioneers of German Poster Art", entitled the The "Steglitz Workshop" : Die "Steglitzer Werkstatt" that appears in the April 1920 issue of the German graphic deisgn magazine "Das Plakat". The Workshop, in the Berlin suburb of Steglitz, had its origins in 1900 and was formed by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens and Georg Belwe. Despite the three artists and teachers only working together for between three and six years, before moving on to new posts and positions, the Steglitzer is regarded as one of the most important elements of the Buchkunstbewegung - the German Book Art movement of the early Twentieth Century.
This leaflet, originally from 1902, was designed and set out by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878 - 1965), an important figure in German graphic design and typography.
The February 1920 issue of Das Plakat with a cover by Karl Sigrist contains other examples of work by this German artist and designer. This includes a four page supplement showing examples of the sets of printers ornaments - schmuck - that he designed for the Dresden based typefoundry Schriftgießerei Brüder Butter that had been formed in 1892. In 1922 it became Schriftguss AG vorm. Brüder Butter and survived into post-WW2 years when in the East German state it was nationalised.
As can be seen Sigrist designed a wide range of figures, borders and symbols for this series.
The February 1920 issue of Das Plakat with a cover by Karl Sigrist contains other examples of work by this German artist and designer. This includes a four page supplement showing examples of the sets of printers ornaments - schmuck - that he designed for the Dresden based typefoundry Schriftgießerei Brüder Butter that had been formed in 1892. In 1922 it became Schriftguss AG vorm. Brüder Butter and survived into post-WW2 years when in the East German state it was nationalised.
As can be seen Sigrist designed a wide range of figures, borders and symbols for this series.
The February 1920 issue of Das Plakat with a cover by Karl Sigrist contains other examples of work by this German artist and designer. This includes a four page supplement showing examples of the sets of printers ornaments - schmuck - that he designed for the Dresden based typefoundry Schriftgießerei Brüder Butter that had been formed in 1892. In 1922 it became Schriftguss AG vorm. Brüder Butter and survived into post-WW2 years when in the East German state it was nationalised.
As can be seen Sigrist designed a wide range of figures, borders and symbols for this series.
The February 1920 issue of Das Plakat with a cover by Karl Sigrist contains other examples of work by this German artist and designer. This includes a four page supplement showing examples of the sets of printers ornaments - schmuck - that he designed for the Dresden based typefoundry Schriftgießerei Brüder Butter that had been formed in 1892. In 1922 it became Schriftguss AG vorm. Brüder Butter and survived into post-WW2 years when in the East German state it was nationalised.
As can be seen Sigrist designed a wide range of figures, borders and symbols for this series.
On the cover of the February 1920 of "Das Plakat", the Schwabenheft - Swabian issue, is thsi cover by Karl Sigrist (1885 - 1986).
From the "Hannoverheft" issue of "Das Plakat" in 1920 comes this exquisite, tipped in advertising leaflet for the Hannover based company of the Hannoversche Steinholzfabrik "FAMA" Gmbh who manufactured timber and asbestos flooring.
The design is by Walter Kersting and it was printed in Hannover by Gebr. Jänecke. This is the inner fold.
From the "Hannoverheft" issue of "Das Plakat" in 1920 comes this exquisite, tipped in advertising leaflet for the Hannover based company of the Hannoversche Steinholzfabrik "FAMA" Gmbh who manufactured timber and asbestos flooring.
The design is by Walter Kersting and it was printed in Hannover by Gebr. Jänecke. Walter Maria Kersting (1889 - 1970) was a noted German architect and industrial designer.
A postcard tipped into the April 1912 issue of "Mitteilingen des Vereins der Plakatfreunde", later to become "Das Plakat", the German poster and graphic arts magazine. It is by Käte/Käthe Kollwitz and is intended to draw attention to the fact that hundreds of thousands of children, in Berlin, are without a playground; the poster behind the children warning that playing on stairs and in courtyards is forbidden.
Berlin, like most other rapidly expanding Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century cities, had grave housing problems with poor quality and often desperately overcrowded homes for many. In Berlin specific types of apartment blocks additionally suffered from issues with a lack of access to daylight and fresh air. The text at the top of the card states that 600,000 people live in Greater Berlin in apartments where each room is occuppied by five or more people.
The card is by Käthe Kollwitz ( 1867 - 1945) a noted German artist who drew much of her inspiration from social causes, poverty, hunger and war especially on the working classes. She was the first woman to be elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts; despite her standing she was removed from her teaching posts and her works denounced by the National Socialist dicatatorship after 1933. In postwar years her legacy was again, rightly, celebrated.
A tipped-in postcard in the January 1913 issue of the German advertising and poster journal "Das Plakat". It is by noted German artist Ludwig Hohlwein and is for the famous German and later Argentinian Circus of the Sarrasani family. The postcard is of a poster design for the Circus.
The colouful cover for the Hamburgheft - Hamburg edition - of "Das Plakat" for July - August 1921. It depicts yachts on the Außenalster.
A four page insert in an article on the designer of the typeface Czeschka-Antiqua, Carl Otto Czeschka, that appears in the Hamburg special edition of "Das Plakat" issued in July - August 1921. The Hamburg type foundry of Genzsch & Heyse, A.G. had cut the typeface from the designers drawings and issued it in 1914. Interestingly one of the settings of the specimen is in English for the famous Studio Magazine of longstanding.
A four page insert in an article on the designer of the typeface Czeschka-Antiqua, Carl Otto Czeschka, that appears in the Hamburg special edition of "Das Plakat" issued in July - August 1921. The Hamburg type foundry of Genzsch & Heyse, A.G. had cut the typeface from the designers drawings and issued it in 1914. Interestingly one of the settings of the specimen is in English for the famous Studio Magazine of longstanding.