Franz Peffer

This article deals with the graphic designer, poster artist and editor Franz Peffer. For similarly named personalities see Franz Pfeffer .

Franz Peffer (also: Francis A. Peffer ; * 9. October 1887 in Linden before Hannover ; † 23. October 1937 in Berlin ) was a German painter , poster artist , lithographer , industrial illustrator and commercial artist and journalist .

Life

Designed by Peffer movie poster for the silent movie Hamlet with Asta Nielsen in the title role;
around 1920, printed by Meissner & Buch , Leipzig; owned by the Museum of Modern Art (MomA)

Franz A. Peffer was born in Linden, the independent industrial city near Hanover at the time , during the founding period of the German Empire . After attending school, he trained as a lithographer and then studied at the Hanover School of Applied Arts and Crafts .

In the last year of the First World War , Franz Peffer moved to Berlin in 1918. There he became a member of the editorial team of the art magazine Nutzgraphik . Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising = International advertising art = Graphisme publicitaire .

Peffer's 1920 movie poster for Hamlet with actress Asta Nielsen is one of the most famous modern female Hamlet portraits . The strongly psychologizing poster of "the most successful German film of the interwar period" reduces the message almost to a black area from which only the main actress, surrounded by an aureole, appears with only slightly lighter colors on her face, hands and with the dagger as if in the semi-darkness.

Literature (selection)

• Franz Peffer † . In: Nutzgraphik, vol. 14, 1937, issue 11, p. 60. ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Franz Peffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gerald Cinamon : Franz A. Peffer with further references (partly in English) in the database German graphic designers during the Hitler period. Biographical and bibliographical references
• Franz Peffer in the image database of the German Historical Museum (DHM), including self-portraits with theDHM watermark
• Franz Peffer on the website of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Remarks

1. ↑ In contrast to this, the year of death 1954 is given on various occasions; compare, for example, the information on the art Genealogie page , last accessed on July 17, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information in the database of the German Historical Museum [undated], last accessed on July 15, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Gerald Cinamon: Franz A. Peffer (in English) on germandesigners.net [ undated ], last accessed on July 15, 2017.
3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 406ff.
4. ↑ Compare, for example, the information from the German National Library .
5. ↑ Peter W. Marx (Ed.): Hamlet-Handbuch. Substances, appropriations, interpretations , Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler, 2014, p. 474; Preview over google books