Our 33rd Guinness poster by John Gilroy a “My Goodness, My Guinness” ad, with a polar bear having stolen the zookeeper’s bottle of Guinness.
Beer In Ads #187: Rubsam & Horrmann
Friday’s ad is an odd one. It’s for the Staten Island, New York brewery Rubsam & Horrmann. Founded in 1870 in in the town of Stapleton. Piels bought them out in 1953 but closed the brewery ten years later. The ad’s scene is set in Cuba, so I’m guessing the ad is from around the time of the Spanish-American War, which was in 1898. The guy in the brown hat looks like Teddy Roosevelt and the on the right the white-haired man resembles either Buffalo Bill Cody or Mark Twain. But despite the navy parked in Havana harbor, they’re all toasting with Rubsam & Horrmann beer.
Beer In Ads #186: Bieres De La Meuse
Thursday’s ad is a second French poster with the title Bieres de la Meuse and the less well know of the two, because the other was done by the well-known artist Alphonse Mucha. It doesn’t quite have the majesty of the Mucha poster, but it’s very striking in its own right.
Beer In Ads #185: Trinkt Sternenberg Bier
Wednesday’s ad is for another Swiss beer, Brauerei Zum Sternenberg, from Basel. With the tagline “Trinkt Sternenberg Bier” or drink Sternenberg beer, the artwork resembles an illustration from a children’s book. The “king” sits on a throne with brewer’s stars on each arm and there’s one behind him, too. Below the throne, a triple tap fountain spills beer into a pool. The kings seems to be shouting “drink, drink” urging on the kneeling man chugging his beer. Certainly one of the odder scenes in a beer ad.
Beer In Ads #184: Barclay’s Lager, Light Or Dark
Tuesday’s ad is for the London brand Barclay’s Lager. Getty Images claims it’s from around 1900 but the artist, Tom Purvis, was born in 1888 meaning he’d have been 12 then, so it seems more likely it was actually later. The ad reminds me a bit of the Blues Brothers movie, the scene at the bar where the bartenders tells the band they have both kinds of music, country and western. They serve both kinds of lager, “Light or Dark.”
Beer In Ads #183: Trinkt Zurcher Lowenbrau
Monday’s ad is for the Swiss brand Löwenbräu. “Trinkt Furcher Zöwenbräu” is essentially “drink Swiss Löwenbräu.” It was done by the Swiss artist Otto Baumberger. I love the look of the mug.
Beer In Art #91: Andriy Khomyk’s Drinking Beer
Today’s painting is done using a unique technique, reverse painting on glass. It’s an ancient process, and today’s artist, Andriy Khomyk, is from the Ukraine where at one time it enjoyed more popularity. According to his website. “No other medium allows for the creation of such deep and energetic color! Painting is done on the reverse side of the pane — the work is viewed through the layer of glass, which produces amazing effects!” You can also read more about painting on glass on Khomyk’s website. The title of the painting below is Drinking Beer.
A short biography is on his website:
Andriy Khomyk was born in Lviv, Ukraine, on May 28, 1962. He graduated from the Faculty of Design of Lviv College of Applied end Decorative Arts in 1981, and from the Faculty of Decorative Ceramics of the Lviv Academy of the Arts in 1986. He has worked in the fields of easel painting and book printing art, and since 1991 in the field of easel painting on glass. He has participated in international and national exhibitions, and has had personal exhibitions of paintings on glass in Lviv, 1993, USA, 1995, Kyiv, 1996, Lviv, 1996, Krakow, 1997, USA, 1997, Lviv, 1998, Lviv, 1999, and USA, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
He’s also done one more beer-themed painting that’s in his Folk Arts section under crafts, entitled The Brewer.
You can see many more of his painted glass artwork at the gallery on his website.
Guinness Ad #33: Pure Shelfishness!
Our 33rd Guinness poster features a Guinness-drinking lobster and was at least promoting a nice beer pairing with the tagline “There’s nothing like a Guinness with Lobster.” But it’s the bad title pun that really make it.
Beer In Ads #182: Art Nouveau Beer Lady
Friday’s ad is one of my favorite beer posters of all time, though I’ve never seen it with any text so I don’t know if it was ever actually used as an advertisement at all and, if so, for what brewery. I’ve never seen any information about the artist or even where it’s from precisely, though I suspect it’s French. Still, it’s beautiful.
Beer In Ads #181: Hurlimann Bier
Thursday’s ad is for the Swiss brewery, Brauerei Hurlimann. It was founded in 1836, and moved to Zurich thirty years later, in 1866. They’re still brewing beer today, though I don’t know when this ad was done, though I suspect it was shortly after World War 2 ended, as “Kriegs Zeit Friedens Zeit” translates roughly as “postwar peace time period.”
