Biography
Posters. Born 24 February 1889 in Munich. From 1910: studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule: a teacher was Julius Diez; further studies at the Munich Akademie. 1934: won 1st and 2nd prizes in poster competition for the tercentenary of the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play. Member of the art group Die Zwölf (The 12). Taught lettering at the Meisterschule für das deutsche Malerhandwerk, Munich. Died 15 October 1948 in Munich
Writings about
- , ‘The “Neue Vereinigung Münchner Plakat-Kunstler”’ (League of Munich Poster Artists), Gg, Aug. 1931, pp. 2-9
- , ‘Hermann Keimel’, Gg, March 1932, pp. 2-7
- ‘Poster competition…’, Gg, Oct. 1933, pp. 30-33
- , 1956
- , ‘German poster art and its masters’, novum, Aug. 1980, pp. 52-6
- , 1992.