Fritz Rehm

Background

Fritz Rehm was born in 1871 in Munich, Bayern, Germany. His father came from a Catholic background and owned a business.

Education

Fritz enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in April 1890 and received instruction from sculptor Syrius Eberle.

Career

In 1896, Fritz produced one of his first and most famous posters, "Cigaretten Laferme", printed in Leipzig. In 1898, he was one of the few German graphic designers whose works Jules Chéret selected for his magazine Les Maîtres de l'affiche. In 1897, Rehm collaborated with Jugend, the new weekly magazine in Munich created by Georg Hirth and Fritz von Ostini, which, among other media and events, initiated the Jugendstil movement. Rehm also started the relations with Otto Fischer, who was the promoter of the "poster style", the art nouveau counterpart of this advertising medium, which then enjoyed a considerable boom in Paris and in most major Western cities.

Fritz also exhibited at the Viennese Secession and then opened his own studio. Between 1905 and 1914, turning to decorative art, he worked as a designer for the company Peill & Söhn in Düren, which specialized in the production of luxury glass objects, as well as for Lauchhammer Bildguss, a Munich-based company that produced small bronze sculptures.

Rehm's studio, which obeyed numerous commands (object design, advertising flyers, inserts, business cards, postcards) did not seem to have been very active during the First World War. The artist died in 1928 in Germany.

Achievements

• Fritz Rehm was one of the few German artists represented in the Mâitres de l'Affiche for his 1898 poster.

Works

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• painting

  • 6 Card Set

  • Zwergkönig und sein Gefolge

  • Springer Manufaktur Modewaren Wäsche

  • Postcard Woman As Witch

  • Jugend magazine

  • Hans Sollfrank

  • Advertising poster Victoria Fahrradwerke (bicycles)

  • Der Kenner, Cigaretten Laferme Dresden

  • Postcard Love Heart Woman

  • Sussstof Hochst

  • Otto Perutz Lithographic Advertising Card

Views

Fritz's earlier works were in Jugendstil style, but Rehm gradually moved towards plakatstil, in which his talent flourished.

Connections

tutor:

Syrius Eberle