Otto Arpke, designer

Otto Arpke (1886-1943) was a painter and an illustrator. He designed the posters for The cabinet of Doctor Caligari, for shippings companies and for the Olympic Games of 1936. He had even decorated the Hindenburg zeppelin and made a number of title pages for the innovative lifestyle magazine die neue linie. In Berlin, 1912, he met the artist and teacher Emil Orlik, who had an influence on his creation. 

 

The dining-room of the Hindenburg Zeppelin, with paintings on silk wallpaper by Otto Arpke.