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Blase, Karl Oskar
born 1925 in Cologne, died 2016 in D - Kassel
Museum am Ostwall Dortmund
poster of the exhibition Amerikanische Primitive - Laienmalerei vom 17. Jahrhundert bis heute
motif by Horace Pippin
1954
original design
colour offset
84 cm x 60 cm
was folded, small loss of paper at one corner, traces of use
order no. 23080
Karl Oskar Blase, born 1925 in Cologne, pathbreaking german graphic artist, studies in graphic and painting in Wuppertal (Germany), art dicector (together with Felix Müller) of the 'Amerikahäuser' in Germany (1952-1958), professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (1966-1992), corporate design (poster, catalogue and partly logo) for the documenta 4,5,6,8, design of more than 50 stamps for the German Post (1955-1988), managing board Kasseler Kunstverein (Germany), he designed numerous posters for exhibitions (please have a look in our stock) and institutions (e.g. Atlas Film-Verleih, Staatstheater Kassel, 'form' - Zeitschrift für Gestaltung) and also functional design patterns (e.g. 'Falke Strümpfe', cutlery 'mono'), lives and works in Kassel, Germany.
Felix Müller, born 1923 in D - Solingen, died 1996, studied in graphic in Wuppertal, student of Jupp Ernst, founded together with Karl Oskar Blase the graphic office müller-blase, teacher and director at the art school in Bremen.
Motif of the poster by Horace Pippin (1888-1946), detail from the work "John Brown on the way to his execution". The exhibition was made by the Smithsonian Institute for the "U.S. Informations-Dienst". Very interesting the introduction about the American art in the exhibition catalogue by Jean Lipman! Compare to this theme Ruby, Sigrid: Have we an American Art?, Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachriegzeit, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1999, p.153 ff.
This poster has been honored as one of the best 20 posters of the year 1955.
Compare the poster without museum letters order no.18077
Lit.:
Blase, Karl Oskar, Grafik Design von 49 bis 95, Ausstellungskatalog Deutsches Plakatmuseum Essen 1995.
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016
