Sepp Semar

Biography

Posters. Born 9 November 1901 in Contwig, near Zweibrücken. Studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule: teachers included Richard Riemerschmid and F.H. Ehmcke. Later settled in Kaiserslautern. Painted, and designed posters for National Socialist Gemeinschaft (community, organisation) ‘Kraft durch Freude’, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, stamps for the Reichspost, covers for the journal Die Westmark. Also worked for the printing firm Carl Philipp Schmidt of Kaiserslautern. 1967: living in Zweibrücken/Pfalz.

Writings about

  • E. Hausen, ‘Sepp Semar. Ein bedeutender Saarpfälzer und Plakatkünstler’, Die Westmark, April 1938, p. 379
  • Vollmer, 1958
  • MGD, 1992.
  • H.K.F., ‘Posters for sparkling wine’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Aug. 1936, pp. 54-5 (Schaumwein)