Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1961

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Erich Pfeiffer-Belli – German Posters 1960
Günter Böhmer – Pin-Prick Pictures
The Image of the Beehive – Dutch Window-Shops
Remigius Netzer – Eternal Image – On the Bible-Illustrations by Josef Hegenbarth
Hans Kuh – Parke, Davis & Co. – Pharmaceutical Advertising
Carl Heussner – Brazilian Book-Jackets
Eberhard Hölscher – Ernst Winkel – Graphic Advertising Art
Ludwig Ebenhöh – Bauer’s Little Gallery – An Original Typographic Show

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He designed stamps from around 1955 and in the book Karl Oskar Blase, Briefmarken-Design, Verlag für Philatelistische Literatur, 1981, he was described as one of the most influential stamp designers in Germany.