''Das Plakat'' () was a design and art magazine published from 1910 to 1922 in Berlin, Weimar Germany. It was one of the early and influential publications on the art of posters and commercial art.

History and profile

''Das Plakat'' was started by

Hans Sachs Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German ''Meistersinger'' ("mastersinger"), poetry, poet, playwright, and shoemaking, shoemaker. Biography Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg (). As a child he attended a singing school that w ...

in 1910. Its founding publisher was the Verlag Das Plakat based in Berlin. Between 1912 and 1921 it was published by Verlag Max Chiliburger. The company was managed by Hans Sachs on instruction of the Verein der Plakatfreunde (German: Association of friends of the poster) as the official media outlet of the association. Sachs also edited the magazine which focused on the production of posters. It also published the early examples of the political

pictorial maps Pictorial maps (also known as illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird's-eye view maps, and geopictorial maps) depict a given territory with a more artistic rather than technical style. It is a type of map in contrast to road map, ...

in November 1915. These were the reproductions of two political cartoon maps of Europe which had been produced by Paul Hadol in 1870 and by Walter Trier. Heinrich Inheim and Ernst Carl Bauer were among its contributors. ''Das Plakat'' sold only 200 copies at the beginning, but later it managed to sell 5,000 copies. It ceased publication in 1922.

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