Monday’s ad is for a French brewery, Bieres de Montmorillon, most likely from the 1920s. This ad is quite odd, with the weird little man in the red coast actually licking at the beer and giving a strange sidewards glance. I’m not sure that would make me want to try their brand.
Thursday’s ad continues our week of ads from France, this one done in 1930. It’s for Biere Phenix, which was founded in 1886. The artist’s name is Leon Dupin. Either the sailor’s drinking in the fog, or he has a disembodied hand.
Wednesday’s ad is yet another one from France, done in 1920. It’s for Biere De Vezelise, a brewery that was located in northeastern France since 1863, when it was founded by Antoni Moreau. The brewery closed in 1971. The artist’s name is Guerzan.
Tuesday’s ad is another one from France, done in 1929. It’s for Maik Les Bieres De Luxe, a brewery located on the Champs-Elysess in Paris. The artist is T. Mercier.
Friday’s ad is from an earlier period, just before the golden age of poster, nearer the turn of the century, around 1905. It’s by artist Francisco Tamagno and is advertising Biere De Ville Sur Illon.
Here’s a short biography of the artist.
Francisco Tamagno was among the original movement of France’s fanciful graphic advertisement art tradition so popular around the Turn of the 20th Century, as it is now as vintage art. His signature style is influenced by his Portuguese heritage, infusing his French-themed art with bright, lively colors in highly pictorial settings. Born in Sintra, Portugal in 1851, in his early career, he was a portrait painter. He moved to Paris in the 1880’s to work as the house artist of the printer Camis; preparing theatrical playbills, and later graduating to posters for railroads, bicycle manufacturers and distillers. He died in Paris in 1923.
Thursday’s ad continues the impromptu series from the golden age of posters, the 1920s. This one is again from France around 1927. It’s for Brasserie Lengrand and is by the artist G. Piana.
Tuesday’s ad is by one of my favorite poster artists, Alphonse Mucha. The title of it is Bieres de la Meuse and it was done in France around 1897.
With Monday’s ad we continue our journey back to the French beer ads of the 1920s, this one for Biere de L’Eclair. A big man with big cigar, and an even bigger mug of beer. Who’s thirsty now?
Friday’s ad is yet another French beer, this one for Bieres de Chartres. While I don’t know very much about it, or who the artist is, it’s from the same period of time — the 1920s — and is cut from the same cloth. It may even be a tad funnier, what with the waiter drinking the beer even as he delivers it.
Thursday’s ad is another French beer, and like Tuesday’s ad, features an anthropomorphic sun. It was done by French illustrator Marcellin Auzolle and is specifically for Supreme Biere Gangloff. A lot of great artists worked for Gangloff in the 1920s, I hope their beer was as good as their taste in artists. It’s also great to see kids in beer ads, especially given our peculiar paranoia about mixing the two.
