Max Schammler

Ernst Friedrich Max Schammler (born January 11, 1868 in Sachsendorf (Lindendorf) ; † in the 20th century ) was a German painter , poster artist , entrepreneur and co-founder of the Graphic Art Institute Innsbruck .

life and work

Max Schammler initially worked for Carl Lampe in Innsbruck . In 1904 a book he illustrated about the Ötztal was published; The plastic map of Landeck, Tyrol is likely to come from the same period .

In 1904 Schammler founded the company Fuchs & Schammler, "Graphische Kunstanstalt Innsbruck", together with Valentin Fuchs . One of the early publications from this company was the Alpen Verein Fest of the Innsbruck section on February 4, 1905 in the Stadtsaal rooms . Anton Renk wrote the text and Max Schammler wrote the illustrations.

In 1909 there was z. B. Johann Wunibald Deininger's work Tyrolean Folk Art published , which contains 60 chromolithographed plates.

Exemplary posters emerged from the workshop of the two Germans at the beginning of the 20th century , for example the large art nouveau- influenced graphic for the Hungerburgbahn from 1906. One copy is in the collection of the Innsbruck City Archives. Schammler and Fuchs also tried to get other well-known artists in Tyrol to work with the medium of commercial and advertising graphics.

From 1910 on, Schammler continued to run the Innsbruck Art Institute alone. He apparently filed for bankruptcy in 1911 before giving up the company in 1915.

In those years, for example, around 1913 Schammler produced a color lithograph with the title "Greetings from the Underworld" with the artist signature of Franz John for the Innsbrucker Liedertafel . Schammler had already printed a poster in 1910 that invited the Innsbruck song table to the carnival entertainment, based on a template by Paul E. Tautenhahn . It showed a couple carrying song and sound to the North Pole.

In November 1915, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft published a commemorative publication on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, which had been illustrated by Hans Rudolf Schulze , Schammler and the painter Richter.

Schammler's advertising graphic for Mannesmannröhren-Lager GmbH in Frankfurt am Main was published in Motor magazine in 1916 , in which an advertisement by Lanz appeared in January / February 1918, which Schammler had illustrated. In 1916 he created an advertising poster for Hugo Heine's propeller factory. An advertising image for RMS Mauretania based on a template by E. Rossner was printed by Schammler in the early 20th century.

The Sophienruhe, a lookout point in Innsbruck, which was designed in 1913 according to Schammler's plans, was reopened in 2008 after a redesign.

After the First World War , in the early 1920s, Max Schammler's traces are lost in Tyrol . It can be proven for Berlin-Friedenau by November 22, 1921 at the latest. In the Berlin address book from 1924 there is an entry on the “Art workshops for modern propaganda Max Schammler, Friedenau, Rheinstr. 60 ”and in 1927 he published a draft for a skyscraper in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung , which was to be built on Askanischer Platz and was to serve as the central train station. The building should replace the Anhalter Bahnhof , become a new landmark of Berlin and contain not only shops, cafés at a height of 160 meters and exhibition rooms, but also consulates from almost every country.

At Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse 85 in Kleinmachnow there is still a house that was built for Max Schammler, and Max Schammler also designed an advertising poster for Kleinmachnow from around 1931.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Civil registry office Friedrichsfelde : marriage register . No. 50/1892.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Roland Kubanda (Ed.): Stadtflucht 10 m / sec. / Innsbruck and the Nordkettenbahn / Contributions to the 75th anniversary / City Archives / City Museum Innsbruck (= publications of the Innsbruck City Archives , New Series, Vol. 29), Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich-Bozen: Studien-Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3 -7065-1890-1 and ISBN 3-7065-1890-2 , pp. 190, 192, 203 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
3. ^ Nicola Bröcker, Celina Kress: Settle southwest. Kleinmachnow near Berlin - from a villa colony to a town house settlement . First edition, 1st edition, Berlin: Lukas-Verlag, 2004, cover cover picture and p. 4 limited preview in the Google book search
4. ↑ Bibliotheca geographica XIII, year 1904, Berlin 1908, pp. 209 and 217 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
6. ↑ Anton Renk on archive.li
7. ↑ Illustration of the Hungerburgbahn poster on www.sagen.at
8. ↑ 1911-08-12 on www.tirolensien.at
9. ↑ Peter Weiss. Karl Stehle: Advertising postcards , Basel; Boston; Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1988, ISBN 978-3-7643-1937-3 and ISBN 3-7643-1937-2 , p. 122; Preview over google books
10. ↑ 1910-02-07 on www.tirolensien.at
11. ↑ Lot 114 on www.tschoepe.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ^ Motor , January / February 1918, p. 12, illustration on www.theprintscollector.com
13. ↑ Advertising poster for Heine Propeller on service.bez-berlin.de
14. ↑ Cunard Line RMS Mauretania on [www.christies.com]
15. ^ Redesign of the Sophienruhe , in: Innsbrucker Verschönerungsverein, Mitteilungsblatt 4, 2008, p. 2 ( digitized version )
16. ↑ Illustrirte Zeitung, Leipzig, 157 (1921), issue 4057, p. 238 .
17. ^ Digitized address book on digital.zlb.de
18. ↑ Max Schammler, Berlin on the way to the cosmopolitan city , in: Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 8, 1927, p. 285, quoted from: Ariane Leutloff, Turmhaus, Großhaus, Wolkenschaber. A study on Berlin skyscraper designs from the 1920s , Kiel 2011, ISBN 978-3-86935-042-4 , p. 204 f.
19. ↑ Kleinmanchnow 13 , p. 36 f. ( Digitized version )
20. ↑ Poster advertising for Kleinmachnow on www.wsa-b.de