Eduard Sauer

Biography

Packaging, posters, postage stamps, banknotes, ex-libris, trademarks. Born 1899 in Nuremberg. Pupil of O.H.W. Hadank. 1935-6: designs for Olympic Games postage stamps competition. Living in Berlin in 1936. Living in Baden-Baden in 1967.

Writings about

  • student work shown in H.K. Frenzel, ‘Preparatory training for advertising artists’, Gg, July 1930, pp. 2-43
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Eduard Sauer’, Gg, Feb. 1934, pp. 28-35
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Eduard Sauer’, Gg, April 1936, pp. 12-17 (stamps)
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘The meaning of exlibris’, Gg, Aug. 1936, pp. 48-53
  • W. Tropp, ‘Eduard Sauer’, Exlibris, 1939, pp. 4-6
  • Leopold Nettelhorst, ‘Emanation of a personality. Works of former pupils of Professor O.H.W. Hadank, Hamburg’, Gg, Aug. 1954, pp. 6-39
  • Gerd Voss, ‘Gedanken zur Versicherungswerbung’ (insurance advertising), Graphik, 1955, 3, pp. 128-32, esp. p. 128 (trademark)
  • Eberhard Hölscher, Gg, Jan. 1959, pp. 14-21 (Gg covers)
  • Rudolf Niess, ‘Ein Buchzettel Exlibris’ (book labels), Sigill, H. 3, 1973, pp. 3-11
  • novum, Jan. 1979, p. 37 (exlibris, 1930s).