Walter Schnackenberg

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Walter Schnackenberg (born May 2, 1880 in Lauterberg , † January 10, 1961 in Rosenheim ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Early his talent knowing he was 19 years after Munich to school there from Heinrich Knirr to visit to then at the Academy of Franz von Stuck study. There his talent for drawings and caricatures became apparent. In the period that followed, his designs appeared in the art magazine “Jugend” and “ Simplicissimus ”.

He traveled several times to Paris , where he became interested in the works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and was inspired by them. 1908/09 Paris, Montparnasse , acquaintance with Picasso .

In the field of graphics , he made a name for himself with poster designs . Schnackenberg designed an advertising poster for the Europäische Güter- und Reisegepäck-Versicherungs-AG around 1920 , for example, and provided it with his name in clear cursive. As an eye-catcher, he drew a young woman with a red hat, yellow-blonde hair and noticeably red painted lips. She wore a yellow coat and red gloves. She held the policy in her hands and studied it. With all white capital letters on a black background, the graphic artist referred to the insurance company by name, and in the background he had a baggage-carrying, contrasting color, service man do his work in the vicinity of parked suitcases and other pieces of luggage. His frivolous posters for the German Theater in Munich are legendary . But he also became known through designs for stage decorations and costumes.

Schnackenberg was a son-in-law of Carl von Thieme , the co-founder of the Munich reinsurance company, and in 1890 also of Allianz insurance. In 1907 Thieme and the MüRück were involved in the establishment of the European freight and luggage insurance company in Budapest. Walter Schnackenberg spent the last years of his life in Degerndorf in the Rosenheim district , at the Vorderleiten house; he died in Rosenheim in 1961 .

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  1. See Figure 13 and caption in Johannes Bähr, Christopher Kopper: Munich Re. The history of Munich Re 1880–1980 , Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68361-9 , p. 110