The poster. Journal of the Verein der Posterfreunde eV

Title page of the special issue Der Film ;
October 1920, design: Paul Leni ;
Publisher: Das Plakat , Charlottenburg

Mihály Bíró (1917)

The poster was a magazine published at the beginning of the 20th century , with the particular aim of promoting contemporary artistic design of posters and advertising graphics . The magazine appeared from 1910 under the title Mitteilungen des Verein der Posterfreunde (VDP) and was published by the club's co-founder and poster collector Hans Sachs in Berlin-Nikolassee on behalf of the VDP.

The art magazine appeared in 1910 with an edition of only 200 copies, while in 1916, for example, 3,000 copies left the printing presses.

The last edition in the course of the dissolution of the VDP in 1920 appeared in the following year 1921.

Web links

Commons : the poster. Journal of the Verein der Posterfreunde eV  - a collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Digitized copies of the magazine Das Plakat as part of commercial and advertising graphics - specialist journals from the 1910s to 1940s (International Advertising Art) in the German-language illustrated magazines of classic modernism project of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
• The poster ... in the magazine database
• Digital copies of all issues of the magazine Das Poster on the website of the International Advertising & Design DataBase

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Julia Meer; Association of Poster Friends , in this: A new look at the new typography. The reception of the avant-garde in the professional world of the 1920s (= design , Volume 31), also dissertation 2014 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, [2015], ISBN 978-3-8376-3259-0 and ISBN 3- 8376-3259-8 , pp. 316 et al .; Preview over google books
2. ↑ Compare the imprint of the October 1913 edition, p. 49
3. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library