This week we had presentations about designers from 1900 tell 1945. The picture above shows the most interesting ones that got my attention.
My designer was Walter Schnackenberg.
Walter Schnackenberg (1880 -1961) born in Bad Lauterburg most known for his
magazine poster designs and illustrations. When looking at his work, you can
tell that the serialism artists influenced him such as Salvador Dali but that
wasn’t always the case. From what I saw and read there were two major styles of
his work that was clearly affected by his personal life.
When
he first started his designs in Franz von Stuck Academy it was all about
dancers and nightclub illustrations. He was also known for his taste in fashion
as he developed some different women styles. Later on his work was more
conceptual, he replaced people heads with strange creatures and on some
drawings he drew them without heads. He played with human scale and the idea of
reflecting the dark side of people in his work.
After
finishing art school he worked for "Jugend" and
"Simplizissimus" magazines as a poster designer. His themes were
theatre and the comic muse and I think although he did it in a really good way
and his work was amazing, noticing all the basic technology they had back then,
but this wasn’t his field of creativeness. However, he was taken by the market
demands and that’s what usually happen when a designer begin to work.
Schnackenberg
was traveling a lot mostly to Paris were he was interested in Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec work. In Paris he developed his fashion style with his evident
preference for frivolous ladies. He was highly fashionable in his days. You can
simply understand this by imagining a French taste with a German background. At
the last of his career his surreal art started to show in his work by using
melting elements, mask faces and weird body shapes and gestures.
Walter Schnackenberg was a great
designer with a very special taste. When looking to his work you can see how
passionate he was about it and that’s what I love the most about him.
Here are some examples of his work:
We also discussed the way of writing a proper essay and thats by having:
1. Introduction
2. explanation\ expansion
3. restatement
4. conclusion
This structure works for the introduction, body and conclusion as well.
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