FRITZ REHM (1871-1928) HANS SOLLFRANK. 1908. 49x35 7/8 inches, 124 1/2x91 cm. Druckereien und Kunstanstalten, Munich. Condition B+: repaired tears and creases in margins and image; restoration along vertical and horizontal folds. Fritz Rehm studied art in Munich and opened up his own studio there at the end of the 19th century. His earliest known poster dates to 1896, and he was one of the few German artists represented in the Mâitres de l'Affiche for his 1898 poster Cigarettes Laferme. Here, for a tobacconist he creates a multi-layered, atmospheric image that plays with shadows and light, in which two distinguished gentlemen are enjoying their smokes in the calm interior of the store. Designed in the prevailing German fashion of the period, with flat colors and practically no outlines, Rehm takes his design one step further and shows more facial detail than was usual for the time. DFP-III 2646
