Opel Advertising Art by Ernst Zoberbier (1929)

Ernst Zoberbier (1893–1965) was a German painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Art School in Magdeburg (graphics and illustrations), and then later in Berlin and in Leipzig. He worked in Wiesbaden from 1913, mainly as an illustrator for newspapers. He made etchings with technical themes and many drawings, and now and then he designed posters for detergents and for the car industry (Opel). In his spare time he painted landscapes, allegoric persons and nudes in a very romantic manner. His breakthrough as a painter came with the rise of the Third Reich.