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Beer In Ads #3128: Oktoberfest 1957

September 26, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Thursday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1957. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began September 21 and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. From what I can tell, official Oktoberfest posters started being produced each year beginning in 1952. The poster was created by German artist Ernst Strom, who also created Oktoberfest posters in 1958, 1967 and 1981.

Oktoberfest-1957

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3127: Oktoberfest 1956

September 25, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Wednesday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1956. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began September 21 and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. From what I can tell, official Oktoberfest posters started being produced each year beginning in 1952. The poster was created by German artist Ernst Kosslinger, and it’s almost identical to the one he did for 1955, the prior year.

Oktoberfest-1956

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3126: Oktoberfest 1953

September 24, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Tuesday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1953. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began September 21 and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. From what I can tell, official Oktoberfest posters started being produced each year beginning in 1952. The poster was created by German artist Hans Kuh.

Oktoberfest-1953

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3125: Oktoberfest 1952

September 23, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Monday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1952. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began September 21 and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. From what I can tell, official Oktoberfest posters started being produced each year beginning in 1952. The poster was created by German artist Eugène M. Cordier.

Oktoberfest-1952-Eugène-M-Cordier

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3124: Oktoberfest 1955

September 22, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Sunday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1955. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began yesterday and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. The poster was created by German artist and designer Ernst Kosslinger.

Oktoberfest-1955-lg

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3123: Oktoberfest 1954

September 21, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Saturday’s ad is for the Munich Oktoberfest, from 1954. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for the Munich Oktoberfest, which began today and runs through October 6. So from now until then I figured I’d post posters from the German folk festival. The poster was created by German artist Max Hartl.

Oktoberfest-1954

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Festivals, Germany, History, Oktoberfest

Beer In Ads #3122: Restaurant Platzl Täglich Conzert D’ Dachauer

September 20, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Friday’s ad is for Restaurant Platzl Täglich Conzert D’ Dachauer, from 1908. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for a restaurant, Restaurant Platzl vis a vis vom Hofbräuhaus, with Karl Böhm as Restaurateur. I’m not sure where it was located as my language skills can’t make heads or tails out of the text at the bottom, which undoubtedly contains that information. It appears to be a poster for daily concerts (Täglich Konzert) although what “D’ Dachauer” means I don’t know. But I do love the miniature people below the accordion player standing on beer steins, some of them holding their own beer mugs as they enjoy the concert. The poster was created by German artist Otto Obermeier.

Restaurant-Platzl-1908

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Germany, History

Beer In Ads #3120: Bier Ist Etwas Gutes

September 18, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Wednesday’s ad is for Bier ist etwas Gutes, “Beer is Something Good,” from 1955. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This is part of a series of posters promoting beer by the German Brewers Association in the mid-20th century, though I’m not sure it was originally created for the German Brewers Association, but it appears they may have also used the poster in their own advertising efforts. It was created by Swiss artist Celestino Piatti. Piatti also did a similar ad the year before.

Celestino-1955-beer-is-good

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Germany, History, Switzerland

Beer In Ads #3119: Salvator Bräu

September 17, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Tuesday’s ad is for Salvator Bräu, from 1909. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster is for Paulaner Brauerei München, which was founded in 1634. Salvator, of course, was their famous doppelbock. The poster was created by a Heinrich Moser, but the only one I could find was a Swiss watchmaker, and I suspect it must be a different one.

Salvator-Brau-1909

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Germany, History

Beer In Ads #3115: Hacker Herrenhell

September 13, 2019 By Jay Brooks

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Friday’s ad is for Hacker Herrenhell, from around 1933. From the late 1800s until the 1970s, poster art really came into its own, and in Europe a lot of really cool posters, many of them for breweries, were produced. This poster was made for the Hacker Brauerei of Munich, Germany, which was founded in 1417, by Maria Theresia Hacker’s father and her new husband, Joseph Pschorr. Pschorr bought it and turned it into Munich’s biggest brewery. Unsatisfied, he started a second brewery, naming it after himself, the Pschorr Brauerei, and when he passed away gave each of his breweries to one of his sons. In 1972, finally, the two merged to become the Hacker-Pschorr Brewery. The poster was created by German graphic designer and artist Otto Ottler.

Hacker-Herrenhell

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Germany, History

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