Paul Kammüller

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Poster by Paul Kammüller for an exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum Basel , 1917

Paul Kammüller (* 31 January 1885 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † 9. March 1946 in Basel ) was a German, mainly in Switzerland active graphic , oil and watercolor - painter , illustrator , lithographer and publisher . The lecturer , who expressed the entire range of applied and free graphics in a variety of ways, carried out numerous poster paintings for a wide variety of clients in the first half of the 20th century .

Life

Paul Kammüller was born as the son of Hermann Kammüller during the German Empire in the Black Forest . He attended the trade school in Basel and then studied from 1905 to 1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Franz von Stuck . From there he continued his education in Paris at the Académie Julian , and stayed in Italy from 1909 to 1911 in Florence .

Paul Kammüllers Monogram PK with stylized mill wheel , with which he related to the name and professional drawing of the miller of ancestors produced

Also at the beginning 1911 was Paul Kammüller, along with colleagues like Hermann Schaper or Änne Koken , one of industrial enterprises and other artists in Hannover demand commercial artist: For the cooperation with the Hanover indicator of the Illustrirten newspaper published (IZ) magazines -Sondernummer 3538 from On April 20, 1911, under the title Hanover and Border Areas , Kammüller created decorative poster paintings signed with his full name for several companies or, as for the photographer Edmund Lill , an ornament with his monogram PK and a stylized mill wheel and surrounding various example photographs - and ribbon.

In the middle of World War I , in 1915 in neutral Switzerland , Kammüller was appointed main teacher of graphics at his own early training facility, the Basler Gewerbeschule, where he taught until 1942.

In 1919 Kammüllerer married Elisabeth Lüscher. She was the sister of Jean Jacques Lüscher

Works (selection)

drawings

Illustrations

  • 1913: Book decorations for Heinrich Moser (ed.): Von Krieg und Kriegsleuten. With the participation of the Association for the Dissemination of Good Writings , Zurich (= Frühlicht. Word and Image for the Young World , Vol. 7) (part of the World War II collection of the German library ), 1. – 10. Thousands of Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen [1913].
  • Cover and picture decorations for Walter Keller: The most beautiful short stories of the Italian Renaissance. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1918.

literature

  • Bruno Margadant (arrangement): The Swiss poster. 1900 - 1983 (= The Swiss poster ). Texts in German, English and French. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-7643-1354-4 ; contents
  • Willy Rotzler (Ed.), Karl Wobmann: Political and social posters of Switzerland. A historical cross section (= political and social posters of Switzerland ). Mainly illustrated exhibition catalog with texts in English, German and French. Language. ABC Edition, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-85504-085-0 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Kammüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kurt Thaler: Paul Kammüller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2007 , accessed July 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paul Kammüller: Old Swiss costumes. 6 original color lithographs. Self-published, Basel [o. D.]; compare the sales offer
  3. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1905, Paul Kammüller, matriculation book. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ o. A. O., passim
personal data
SURNAME Kammüller, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist, oil and watercolor painter, illustrator and lecturer in Basel
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1946
Place of death Basel