René Ahrlé

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René Ahrlé (born October 28, 1893 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 31, 1976 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German graphic artist , painter and photographer .

Life

Ahrlé attended the drawing academy Hanau and participated as a volunteer in the Life Guard Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Duchy of Hesse) no. 115 , part of the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division in Darmstadt , the First World War in part. After the war he worked as a graphic artist and designed posters . The poster for the first German post-war film " The Murderers Are Among Us " (1946) comes from him, among others.

"René Ahrlé was the first graphic artist in Germany to graphically evaluate photography." Ahrlé, "who has meanwhile even made it so far that one of his early works is lexicographically used as a typical example of the first usable photomontage," began in 1925 with the To include photography in the circle of his representational means. Contemporary literature emphasizes as a special feature that the connection between your own recordings and the graphic design creates an unusual uniformity in the creation process. "The particular persuasiveness of his work is based not least on the fact that their inherently heterogeneous structural elements of photography and graphics are not only loosely bound to form, but rather organically fused." The novel effect of his advertising work and the fundamental difference to the previous use of photos In advertising, Ahrlé uses the “camera as an instrument”: “For him it is a tool, as good as a pencil and a brush.” Process developed that enables him to copy individual parts from different plates onto one sheet of paper. ”For example, Ahrlé's advertising graphics for the Shell brand and a poster“ Fight against alcohol ”, in which he, as often, was himself a model, became very popular Has. Trademark his advertising graphics and photo prints alike is by small letters and capital letters playing text "Ahrlé PHOT".

His son was the painter, draftsman and author Ferry Ahrlé (1924-2018). René Ahrlé's archive no longer exists; a small remainder ended up in the photographic collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen.

Works

12 + 38 special stamp

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

  • July 19 to September 21, 2008: Franked Fantastereien , Museum Folkwang , Essen

literature

Lexically

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. dhm.de (September 14, 2011) .
  2. NN: RENÉ Ahrlé in: commercial art , September 1934, pp 50-51, here p. 50
  3. Eberhard Hölscher : RENÉ AHRLÉ , in: Photographik , H. 1, November 1933, pp. 7–11, here p. 7.
  4. Hölscher p. 9f.
  5. Dr. W. Schürmeyer: RENÉ Ahrlé , in: Applied Graphics , Vol 4-1927, H. 7, S. 1-17, here p. 3.
  6. Schürmeyer, ibid.
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  9. Entry on art-report