Carl Moos

Biography

Posters. Born 1878 in Munich. Studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule. 1895-9: illustrated for a Munich newspaper. 1907: designed his first poster. 1914: designed the section of Bavarian book printers for the ‘Bugra’ exhibition, Leipzig. 1914: founder member of the Munich agency Die Sechs (The Six), an association of Munich poster artists. Died 1959.

Writings about

  • Georg Jakob Wolf, ‘Münchner Plakatkunst, Das Plakat, 1915, pp. 1-21
  • Die Sechs (exh. cat.), Zurich: Kunstgewerbemuseums der Stadt Zürich, 1915
  • Fritz Hecker, ‘Die Münchener Brauindustrie’, Die Reklame, May 1925, pp. 481-7, 489
  • Ruth Malhorta, ‘Die ersten Plakate der Gruppe der “Sechs”, 1914’, Jahrbuch des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1983, pp. 231-3
  • Benezit, 2006.
    • M. Glass, ‘Die 6 in Wort und Bild’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Jahrg. 2 (1925/6?), v. 4, pp. 49-55 (showing work of The Six)
  • Walter F. Schubert, Die deutsche Werbegraphik, Berlin: Francke & Lang, 1927. , 1927, pp. 31-7

Exhibitions

  • Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, 1915.