Max Schwarzer

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Max Schwarzer (born April 5, 1882 in Breslau , † March 30, 1955 in Braunschweig ) was a German commercial artist and illustrator .

Life

He completed an apprenticeship as a businessman in Breslau. Volunteer in a lithographic institution. 1908 and he moved to Munich with his friend Valentin Zietara . Together with Friedrich Heubner , Valentin Zietara , Emil Preetorius , Franz Paul Glass and Carl Moos , he founded the artists' association Die Sechs in 1914 , one of the first groups of artists to market advertising orders. In 1914 Max Schwarzer designed the poster for the German exhibition Das Gas. Max Schwarzer drew for the satirical magazine Simplicissimus . The cover picture of the Simplicissimus issue of November 19, 1919, Die Filmdiva , which is regarded as very frivolous , comes from him .

His carnival posters shaped the Munich carnival, for example in the magic garden of Regina (carnival 1928) or Munich carnival (1934).

He produces art advertising posters for the Zuban cigarette company , among others ,

In the New Objectivity style, Max Schwarzer painted covers for Uhu magazine . The basic features of the magazine from the Berlin Ullstein Verlag , conceived by Kurt Tucholsky in 1924, were always open to modern trends, not only in terms of appearance, but also in terms of content. In 1930 he made the Art Deco mosaics with Hans Gött on the steamer Europa .

Other works (selection)

At the beginning of the 1920s he illustrated the fairy tale volumes for the Munich Rösl publishing house with hand-colored pictures and ornaments

  • Peter Schlemihl's wondrous story and
  • Selected fairy tales by Andersen .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Mosaics on steamer Europe
  3. ^ German library
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1955
Place of death Braunschweig