Original Antique Advertising Poster Rosl Bucher Rosl & Co Munich Max Schwarzer

Original antique travel advertising poster for the 1911 International Travel and Tourism Exhibition - Internationale Ausstellung fur Reise und Fremdenverkehr Berlin 1911 Ausstellungs...

Original vintage publishing house advertising poster for Verlag der Schillerbuchhandlung Berlin books - Das billige qualitatsbuch Jeder band Mk 1,75 Die bunten romane / The affordable quality book Each 1.75 Mark The colourful novels - featuring an elegant red haired lady in a blue dress sitting on the floor against a large cushion and holding up a book with the covers of three literary classics below - A Picture of Dorian Gray (first published in 1890) by the notable Irish author, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) featuring a person looking out to the viewer, and two books by the notable French novelist Gustave Flaubert...

Original vintage advertising poster for Nachte Neben der Tur neuer Roman in der Kollnischen Illustrierten / Nights by the Door new novel by Justus Franz Wittkop in the Koln illustrated featuring a great graphic design depicting a pair of black shoes outside a row of numbered hotel doors...

Original vintage Austrian advertising poster for rubber snow shoes manufactured in Russia by Rezinotrust USSR Moscow. Colorful dynamic design showing a man wearing blue trousers and blue and white socks hiding under a large black umbrella from the rain and snow striding forward to show the sole of his right shoe with the trademark and logo of the Russian manufacturer on it, against a bright orange background with stylized text on the right and below, in German: Echt russische Schneeschuhe Galoschen / Real Russian snow...

Original Vintage Poster Wäscherei - Wien - Ûbernimmt Hauswäsche from the 1920's by Franz Anton Griessler. Advertising poster for a laundry in Vienna depicting a woman, a laundress...

Large 20th century artwork lithograph poster artwork created by Ernst Busch for Ovignac Senglet Cognac. The poster "Curacao Singlet" features a woman seated at a bar smoking with a t...

Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East. In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color. SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920. The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs has reintroduced the world to Walter Schnackenberg’s graphic genius and priceless ephemeral art from a lost era. Besides the museum world, designer Karl Lagerfeld is one of the most prodigious collectors of Schnackenberg. Flipping through the pages of Kostume, Plakate und Dekorationen, it becomes quite clear that Schnackenberg’s collection is ground zero at the crossroads of early modern fashion where the cult of celebrity meets up with dance, music, theater and cabaret, film and the graphic medium. Berlin and Munich under Germany’s Weimar Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century produced just the atmosphere to feed this burgeoning industry. Rising inflation sparked a recklessness to live large for the moment and heightened a desire for escapism. An influx of Indian and East Asian dancers and musicians added to the artsy bohemian cultural mix. A new decadence and tolerance resulted. Film boldly featured provocative subject matter. Cabarets became popular venues giving rise to the demi-monde in which people from all social stations mixed more freely in a thriving underground economy and culture where there was a blurring of boundaries and of social codes. Noted art historian and cultural doyen, Oskar Bie astutely observes in his introduction to Schnackenberg’s publication that what unites the images is fantasy and advertisement. Schnackenberg uses the eye as an instrument to brilliantly construct and convey this double message. His personages never directly confront the viewer. Their eyes gaze off in the distance like those of the screenplayer and film star Hedamaria Scholz in Schnackenberg’s “Die Rodelhexe” movie poster. Their eyes follow the path of a dance composition or become a transfixed and ogling male gaze such as the iconic 1911 Odeon Casino poster...

Original Vintage Poster Färberei - Wien - Ûbernimmt Hauswäsche from the 1920's by Franz Anton Griessler. Franz Anton Griessler is an Austrian painter and graphic art artist, born in 1897 in Vienna (Austria) who died in 1974 in Honolulu (Hawaii). He studied painting in Vienna and designed his first posters after World War I. He opened a design studio in partnership with Gewista, a large outdoor advertising agency, for whom he produced a number of successful campaigns. This is a wonderful whimsical...