Alfred Resch

Biography

Posters, publicity, illustration. Born Alfred Bernhard Otto Resch 25 June 1906 in Frankfurt a.M. 1922-5: studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Offenbach a.M.: a teacher was Richard Throll. 1925-8: studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M. 1937: settled in Bielefeld where he freelanced.

Writings about

    Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Advertising art in post-war Germany’, Graphis 34, 1951, pp. 58-79
  • Vollmer, 1958
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Alfred Resch’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Feb. 1961, pp. 50-55.

Exhibitions

  • Schäzler-Palais, Augsburg, 1947.

Collections

  • Gerd Voss, ‘Gedanken zur Versicherungswerbung’ (insurance advertising), Graphik, 1955, 3, pp. 128-32, esp. pp. 129-31 (advertisements)