 Cover page of the magazine dated 1920 | |
| Editor-in-chief | Hans Sachs |
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| Categories | Design magazine |
| Publisher |
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| Founder | Hans Sachs |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Final issue | 1922 |
| Country | Weimar Germany |
| Based in | Berlin |
| Language | German |
Das Plakat (German : The Poster) was a design and art magazine published from 1910 to 1922 in Berlin, Weimar Germany. It was one of the early and influential publications on the art of posters and commercial art. [1]
Das Plakat was started by Hans Sachs in 1910. [2] [3] Its founding publisher was the Verlag Das Plakat based in Berlin. [4] Between 1912 and 1921 it was published by Verlag Max Chiliburger. [1] The company was managed by Hans Sachs on instruction of the Verein der Plakatfreunde (German: Association of friends of the poster) [5] as the official media outlet of the association. [6] Sachs also edited the magazine which focused on the production of posters. [4] It also published the early examples of the political pictorial maps in November 1915. [7] These were the reproductions of two political cartoon maps of Europe which had been produced by Paul Hadol in 1870 and by Walter Trier. [7] Heinrich Inheim and Ernst Carl Bauer were among its contributors. [4]
Das Plakat sold only 200 copies at the beginning, but later it managed to sell 5,000 copies. [6] It ceased publication in 1922. [6]
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