Image series 50 / 2024: Advertising Posters around 1900
Central Motifs: Women
In the late 19th century, advertising took on a new significance due to industrial mass production. As an important advertising medium, the poster served as a means of communication and the struggle for attention accelerated the development of a catchy and aesthetic poster style. Large, expressive figures, bright colours and clear contours were aimed at a long-distance effect and quick comprehensibility. Women were often the central motif, whether as exemplary housewives or modern city dwellers.
The exhibition focuses on the changing relationship between the poster as an artistic-creative medium and the role of women.
“Poster Women. Women’s Posters”
October 11 2024 – February 16 2025, Museum Wiesbaden
“Victoria-Fahrrad-Werke AG Nürnberg”, 1899, Berlin; bpk – Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
“Excelsior-Fahrrad-Werke Gebrüder Conrad in Brandenburg an der Havel”, 1886 bis 1906, Berlin; bpk – Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Josef Maria Auchentaller. Continental Pneumatic, um 1900, 1260 × 950 mm, Wien; Sammlungen Online Albertina, Albertina Museum Wien
Márton Tuszkay. Smith Premier, um 1910, 910 × 620 mm, Wien; Sammlungen Online Albertina, Albertina Museum Wien
Julius Klinger. La Joéla, 1910, 1250 × 870 mm, Wien; Sammlungen Online Albertina, Albertina Museum Wien
Walter Schnackenberg. Peter Pathé und Maria Hagen (weiße Frau), München, um 1919, Essen; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden