Johann Baptist Maier

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Johann Baptist Maier , artist name: Hans Ibe (* 1881 in Regensburg , † 1957 in Munich ) was a German commercial artist and painter.

In 1905 he was a prize winner in a competition for advertising designs for joint advertising by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell . Other award winners were the artists Julius Diez , Eugen Kirchner, Friedrich Stahl, Albert Klingner, Ludwig Hohlwein , Fritz Klee, Bernhard Halbreiter, Elly Hirsch, Anton Kerschbaumer , Georg v. Kürthy, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , Paul Leuteritz, Otto Kleinschmidt , Ulrich Hübner , Anton Hoffmann , Otto Ludwig Naegele , Peter Würth, Ernst Oppler , A. Altschul, Ant. Jos. Pepins and August Geigenberger.

Maier designed several covers of the magazine Die Dame and the Wertbuchkalender 1922. Maier worked in Munich from 1909 to 1942. He was a member of the second group The Six with Max Eschle , Franz Paul Glass , Otto Ottler , Tommi Parzinger and Valentin Zietara and the New Association of Munich Poster Artists. Johann Baptist Maier designed posters for the Marco Polo Tee, for the Kiel Autumn Week , for the Fliegende Blätter , Sporthaus Schuster Munich. Maier signed with Johann B. Maier from 1909 to approx. 1920, then as Hans Ibe. He is represented as a poster artist in the Museum Folkwang in Essen .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hofacker, Prof. Karl: Kunstgewerbeblatt 16th year, Leipzig, 1905.

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