Michael Engelmann

Michael Engelmann was born in 1928 in Prague and died in Düsseldorf in 1966. He was trained as an actor and from 1950 he worked as a self-taught graphic designer, first for the Geigy corporation in Basel and then, from 1960, in his own studio in Munich. The American poster style made a lasting impression on Engelmann. In 1958, he designed a poster series for the Philadelphia Inquirer in collaboration with the photographer Carl Baker. Engelmann became famous for the award-winning posters he designed for the cigarette brand Roth-Händle between 1957 and 1960.

Posters by Michael Engelmann