Otto Obermeier (artist)

Bahlsen advertising vehicle in the old-timer "look" with the tracing of a poster by Obermeier; in front of the Hanover Opera House

Reproduction of a poster (around 1912) by Obermeier for Bahlsen on the wall of the former fire station of the biscuit factory on Podbielskistraße in Hanover

Otto Obermeier (born July 23, 1883 in Munich ; † December 14, 1958 there ) was a German commercial artist , painter and illustrator .

Life

After attending the commercial advanced training school and studying at the arts and crafts school in Munich, Obereimer studied at the Munich Academy from 1905 with Gabriel von Hackl . To finance his studies, he draws comic Munich postcards, most of which have the Munich child in their motif, other postcards pay homage to the Wittelsbach family or the Oktoberfest . Dozens of these motifs shaped the tourist image of Munich in the 1910s. He advanced to become the most important commercial artist in the southern German beer industry. There is hardly a Munich brewery that did not commission a poster from Obermeier in the 1910s. For example, Obermeier produced a whole series of St. Benno beer posters on behalf of Löwenbräu in 1907, which were printed with deviations until the 1950s. His striking posters still shape the cityscape of Munich today. His advertising poster from 1910 for the von Augustiner-Bräu . For decades, the legendary Munich entertainment venue was Platzl with one of its posters.

Around 1912 Upper Meier designed for Bahlsen posters and advertising brands . In 1924 he designed an election poster for the right-wing extremist Völkischer Block with the swastika.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Source : Titus Arnu : Hermann Bahlsen , in the series Made in Germany , Ullstein book . Typical for Obermeier is the mixing of Munich Art Nouveau with local, folkloric elements, while his works are always somewhat ironic, deliberately naive-childish. A recurring stylistic element are lined up white dots, which can be found in almost all works. 35943, Berlin November 1999, ISBN 3-548-35943-4 ; here: p. 78
↑ see section Weblinks , Brands
^ Rainer Schoch : Political posters of the Weimar Republic: 1918 - 1933 . Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 1980, p. 136

personal data
SURNAME	Obermeier, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1958
Place of death	Munich

[1] Source : Titus Arnu : Hermann Bahlsen , in the series Made in Germany , Ullstein book . Typical for Obermeier is the mixing of Munich Art Nouveau with local, folkloric elements, while his works are always somewhat ironic, deliberately naive-childish. A recurring stylistic element are lined up white dots, which can be found in almost all works. 35943, Berlin November 1999, ISBN 3-548-35943-4 ; here: p. 78

[2] see section Weblinks , Brands

[3] Rainer Schoch : Political posters of the Weimar Republic: 1918 - 1933 . Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 1980, p. 136