Page 67 - Swann Galleries - Modernist Posters - Sale 2314 - May 13, 2013

HERMANN KEIMEL (1889-1948)
79 ● MUENCHNER / PLAKAT KUNST. 1931.
47x33 1/2 inches, 1191/2x83 3/4 cm. Chromolitho Kunstanstalt, Munich.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; restoration along horizontal fold.
After studying art at the Munich Academy under Julius Diez and Angelo Jank, Keimel went on to
become a teacher at the same institution. He was a member of the artistic group “The Twelve,” and
also of the new Munich Association of Poster Artists. He designed numerous commercial posters,
generally employing a crisp Art Deco style. This poster is his masterpiece and remains an icon of poster
self-promotion. To promote an exhibition of Munich poster art, Keimel plays a geometrical game and
constructs a cubist face out of colored sheets of printing paper. Weill p. 173, Rademacher cover and
p. 117, Kunst p. 238, Verfuhrungen 131. [4,000/6,000]