Biography
Posters, publicity, book covers. Born 5 November 1888 in Aachen. Studied at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule. April 1919: Wiertz with Max Hertwig and 27 colleagues form the Bundes der Deutschen Gebrauchsgrapiker (BDG). 1921: designed Christmas plate for Rosenthal Porcelain. Designed posters during the 1920s and 1930s. From 1934, perhaps earlier, he had a studio in Berlin. Designed Deutsche Lufthansa publicity in 1935, posters for Mercedes-Benz, 1936, and for Hamburg-America Line, and travel posters by 1937. Won first and second prizes from the Central Council for International Tourism by 1937. Died February 1939 in Berlin.
Writings about
- (no title) Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., June 1934, pp. 62-3 (poster for German State Railways)
- Das Plakat, March 1921, facing p. 194 (covers for a Hannover Rubber Works calendar)
- Das Plakat, Oct. 1921 (work opp. p. 596)
- ‘German railroads advertise’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., March 1933, pp. 2-13, esp. p. 2 (poster) ,
- ‘Germany’ (travel posters), Modern Publicity, 1938-39, pp. 74-6 ,
- 1962 ,
- www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Kulturbehoerde/epoc/deutsch and www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/kkv and www.travelbrochuregraphics.com.
- ‘Tourist traffic [travel] posters of 1936’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Jan. 1937, pp. 2-17, esp. p. 5
- ‘Die Entwicklung der Deutschen Werbegraphik’, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1939. esp. p. 617 ,
- Deutsche Plakatkunst und ihre Meister, Hanau: Verlag Werner Dausien, 1965., 1965, p. 33 and illust. ,
- ‘The landscape in poster art’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Dec. 1931, pp. 2-25 ,
- ‘Deutsche Lufthansa, Berlin’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1935, pp. 36-41, esp. p. 38 ,
- Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1935, 3pp. in inset between pp. 252/253 (Reichsbahn posters)
- ‘Jupp Wiertz’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Nov. 1937, pp. 42-3