Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Artist of the Day, February 11, 2025: Albert Fuss, a German graphic designer (#2215)

Albert Fuss (1889-1969) was a German graphic designer. He studied at the art school in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a graphic designer in Frankfurt am Main in the 1920s. His posters for the Hamburg-America line and the packaging for the cigarette and pharmaceutical industries are particularly well known. Fuss was also active for the Frankfurt International Fair for many years. In the mid-1920s, he was admitted to the Darmstadt Secession and became artistic director of the Frankfurter Zeitung. He also taught at the technical school for book and applied crafts in Frankfurt.

During the Nazi era, Fuss also created graphics for the NSDAP and designed the cover and wooden box for a parchment manuscript by Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf. This manuscript was presented to Hitler as a birthday present in 1936.

After 1945, Fuss continued to work as a graphic designer. In 1950 Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, for example, he designed the advertising campaign of the German Central Agency for Tourism under the motto “Romantic Germany”.In 1950, he was responsible for the design of the advertising campaign the German National Tourist Office.

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German Propaganda, circa 1920 Poster
SGTM à Vapeur Campana Y Florida Para Dakar, Rio de Janeiro,
Montevideo y Buenos Aires, circa 1920
 HAPAG - Cruise Travel Poster Florida, circa 1920
HAPAG - Tropics, circa 1930s travel poster
HAPAG - Fjord Cruise, circa 1930s Travel Poster
 German Design Fair circa 1930 Poster
Visitez les Ardennes Belges Luxembourg, circa 1932

Winter sports scene, circa 1935
HAPAG - Viaggi Mediterranei / Hamburk - Amerika Linie, circa 1935
HAPAG - Wintertropenfahrten Mittelamerika und Cuba Mexico, circa 1935
 HAPAG - Nordlandfahrten, circa 1935
HAPAG - Niederlindien, circa 1935
HAPAG - Hochseefahrt Der Hanseaten u. Schleswig-Holsteiner in die Fjord-
und Schärenwelt Norwegens, circa 1935
 HAPAG - Crociere Nordiche, circa 1935
HAPAG - Mittelmeerfahrten Sailboat, circa 1935 Poster
HAPAG - Hamburg - Amerika Linie, Circa 1935
 Baumblüte Baden-Baden Sonderzug, circa 1935
HAPAG - Reisebüro, circa 1935
HAPAG - Ferien - und  Studienreisen Nach Nord, Circa 1935
 HAPAG - Hamburg - Amerika Linie, circa 1936
HAPAG - Hamburg-Amerika Linie / Habana, circa 1936
HAPAG - Travel around the world, circa 1936
HAPAG - MittelmeerIfahrten, circa 1937
HAPAG - Nach Dem Amazonas, Westindien und Nord Amerika, circa 1937
HAPAG - Nach Westafrika und dem Aequator, circa 1938
HAPAG - Wir fahren nach Amerika Offset, circa 1938
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