Paul Pfund

Biography

Posters. Born 1895 in Halle/Saale. 1919-24: studied at the Berlin Akademie. Designed posters for Deutsche Lufthansa in early 1930s. Sept. 1933: he and H.K. Frenzel the German judges for the prizes awarded at the Continental Advertising Congress, Rome/Milan. By 1935: living in Berlin. By 1936: chairman of the Bundes Deutscher Gebrauchsgraphiker (BDG), and of the Fachgruppe Gebrauchsgraphiker in the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste, Berlin.

Writings by

  • ‘Das Filmplakat’, Gg, April 1935, pp. 63-5
  • ‘Mitteilungen des Bundes Deutscher Gebrauchsgraphiker E.V.’, Gg, April 1935 (in supplement)
  • ‘Better congratulatory postcards’, Gg, Nov. 1935, pp. 56-60
  • ‘German advertising art 1936’, Gg, March 1936, pp. 3-61 (PP’s work p. 22)
  • ‘An exhibition as the basis of artist’s archives’, Gg, May 1936, pp. 34-9
  • ‘“Die Deutsche Werbung” im Essen am 26. September 1936’ (speech at opening of exhibition), Gg, Oct. 1936, p. 61.

Writings about

  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Paul Pfund’, Gg, July 1933, pp. 18-25
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Deutsche Lufthansa, Berlin’, Gg, July 1935, pp. 36-41, esp. p. 40
  • Gg, Oct. 1936, p. 61
  • Walter Hofmann, ‘Minute graphic art about New Year’ (New Year cards), AfB, Jan. 1938, pp. 19-22
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘The Continental Advertising Congress in Vienna’ (June 1938), Gg, July 1938, pp. 61-3.