Max Schwarzer

Biography

Born 5 April 1882 in Breslau. Studied at the Breslau Akademie and at the Munich Akademie. 1914: founder member of Die Sechs (The Six), a group of six Munich poster artists. Died 30 March 1955 in Braunschweig.

Writings about

  • Georg Jakob Wolf, ‘Münchner Plakatkunst, Das Plakat, 1915, pp. 1-21
  • Heinrich Jost, ‘Kriegsgraphik’, Das Plakat, 1915, pp. 22-8
  • Walter Bloch, ‘Berlin und das übrige Deutschland’, Das Plakat, 1915
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Posters from Munich’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1934, pp. 36-43, esp. p. 39.