Mi.600-602 (25.11.1935) Winter Olympic Games 1936
(Collectors?) cover sent from Garmisch Partenkirchen featuring a full issue for the Winter Olympic Games 1936 (Mi.600-602). Ref: 16.02.1936
Mi.600 - 602
Winter Olympic Games 1936
Notes:Â Engraving: Max Eschle, Munich. Recess printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 30.06.1937
The 6 Pf exists imperforate and the 25 Pf exists with inverted watermark. These are the first Reichspost stamps to state the name of the designer ('M ESCHLE' beneath the image frame).
Max Eschle
Max Eschle (1890 - 1979) was a German commercial artist .
Eschle studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts under Julius Diez, among others, and from 1911 to 1915 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Together with Franz Paul Glass, Hans Ibe (Johann Baptist Maier), Otto Ottler, Tommi Parzinger and Valentin Zietara, he was a member of the second group of The Six, one of the first artist groups to market advertising contracts, especially posters.
The poster for the 'German Trade Fair Munich 1922' was designed by Max Eschle.
In 1935, the German Reichspost issued three stamps designed by Eschle to mark the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1936 a further eight stamps to mark the Summer Olympics in Berlin. In addition to numerous posters for events, well-known works include the Sonthofen Mountain Infantry and the enamel sign Hamsterin, schame dich!, which denounced panic buying. He also produced a series of advertising stamps, as well as various oil paintings of mostly Bavarian or Austrian landscapes, some of which were printed as postcards.
In 1936, he designed the poster for the National Socialist propaganda exhibition 'Bolshevism', which took place at the Deutsches Museum. In 1943, Eschle was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich with his oil painting Farmer's Wife at War.
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