Topic:

The poster in Europe: History - present - future (?)

Brief description:

The series of lectures first introduces the German Poster Museum in the MuseuEalkwang. in terms of content, the discussion starts with the forerunners of theposter, the leaflets of the 17th to 19th centuries.

I  Precursors of the poster [17th to 19th century]
II  Industrialization and early posters [19th century]
III  First heyday [1896-1914]
IV  Propaganda posters in World War I [1914-1918]
V  New diversity [1918-1933]
VI  Propaganda posters of the Nazi era / World War II [1933-1945]
VII  New beginning in post-war Europe [1945-1961]
VIII  Division of Europe / Globalization of design I [1961-1989]
IX  Globalized design II [1990-present]
X  Design aspects
XI  Future of the poster

Biography:

Born in 1956 in Berlin, studied museology in Leipzig, studied art history in Halle / Saale.

Worked as curator of the poster collection of the Museum for German History/German Historical Museum, including looking after the Sachs collection and author of the work “Hans Sachs and his poster collection”, together with Hellmut Rademacher curator of the exhibition “Kunst! Kommerz! Visionen! Deutsche Plakate 1888 – 1933 (Art! Commerce! Visions! German posters 1888 – 1933)” in the German Historical Museum in Berlin (1992).

Co-editor of the magazine PlakatJournal, since 2005 director of the German Poster Museum in the Museum Folkwang in Essen and as such curator of numerous poster exhibitions as well as editor of the corresponding catalogues, including Zeitzeiger: Posters from two centuries (2007), Africa – Reflections in Posters (2012), Theater for the Street – Posters for the Theatre (2014), Think Big: Poster ideas for large surfaces (2014), “You'll come into fashion too": Posters by Martin Kippenberger, (2014) and together with Sylke Wunderlich co-editor of Attacks from “Over Ther”: GDR posters 1949 – 1990 (2015), We want You! From the beginnings of the poster to today (2022) and Distant countries, distant times: Longing Area Poster (2024).

Together with Karl Lagerfeld, editor of the edition Advertising: Early advertising on posters (2012).

Author of numerous articles and lectures on the subject of graphic design, including “Art in posters? But only if it doesn’t disturb!” (2016), “Excursion: Stages on the column – Volker Pfüller’s posters” (2019) and most recently “Posters and public space: A historical perspective” (2023).