Theodor Paul Etbauer

Biography

Posters, trademarks, exhibition stands. Born 2 July 1892 in Stuttgart. Worked first in Stuttgart. By 1920: worked in Hamburg where he designed posters for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie (HAPAG) and the company’s exhibition stand for the Advertising Exhibition, 1929, Berlin. He designed the typefaces Balmung (1930, Stempel) and Deutsche Volksschrift (by 1937). Died 3 March 1975 in Brugg-Rothentöbele/Allgäu.

Writings by

  • ‘Kunst heraus!’, Das Plakat, July/Aug. 1921, pp. 429-30
  • ‘Graphisches vom Hamburger Bachfest’, Das Plakat, July/Aug. 1921, p. 451.

Writings about

  • Richard Braungart, ‘Vereinsdrucksachen’, Das Plakat, April 1921, pp. 229-37
  • work shown in Das Plakat (Hamburg ed.), July/Aug. 1921, pp. 390, 392, between pp. 398/9, 407, 409, 410, 411
  • DdW, 1927
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Commercial art in Hamburg’, Gg, v. 8, 1928, pp. 2-34
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘The Advertising Exhibition, 1929, Berlin’, Gg, 1929, v. 8, p. 19 (exhibition stand)
  • Walter Hofmann, ‘Das künstlerische Gesicht der deutschen Schiffahrtswerbung’, AfB, Dec. 1934, pp. 829-32 and later ills.
  • L. Schreiber, ‘New Hamburg-America posters’, Gg, March 1935, pp. 22-27
  • Paul Helms, ‘Gebrauchsgraphik in Hamburg’, AfB, March 1937, pp. 107-20, esp. facing p. 106 (Hamburg-Amerika Linie poster), p. 109 (poster), p. 119 (Deutsche Volksschrift typeface)
  • F.H. Ehmcke, ‘Vom Zeitausdruck ornamentaler Schrift’, Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 1940, pp. 75-84, esp. p. 83
  • O. Matthes and C. Prange, Hamburg und die HAPAG (exh. cat.), Hamburg: Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, 2000 (posters)
  • AKL, 2002. www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Kulturbehoerde/epoc/deutsch and www.travelbrochuregraphics.com

Exhibitions

  • Hamburg, 2000.