Max Eschle (1890 - 1979)

Max Eschle

Max Eschle was a German commercial artist. He was a member of the second group of The Six, one of the first artists' groups to market advertising commissions, specifically posters. In 1935 the Deutsche Reichspost issued three stamps designed by Eschle for the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in 1936 another eight stamps for the Summer Olympics in Berlin. In addition to numerous posters for events, there are well-known works by the Sonthofen mountain troops. He also made a number of advertising stamps, which were common and common before the First World War, as well as various oil paintings of mostly Bavarian or Austrian landscapes, some of which were printed as postcards. Eschle was represented in 1943 with the oil painting Peasant Woman at War at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. In 1936 he designed the poster for the National Socialist inflammatory propaganda exhibition "Bolshevism", which took place in the Deutsches Museum.