Werner Würbel is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

German graphic designer Werner Würbel made bold, poster-style prints in the 1930s. His Olympic Games (1936) poster, created for the Berlin Games, shows athletes in motion with thick black outlines and flat planes of color. The design echoes sports publicity of the era, trading detail for immediate impact.

After 1936, sport posters often copied its clear shapes and simplified figures. Tap Olympic Games to see how the 1936 image set the look for decades of event graphics.