His design work included trademarks, stamps, book covers, typography, posters and textiles.
[1] Aufseeser was born in Nuremberg, Germany the son of a merchant and of Jewish ancestry.
After deciding to embark on an artistic career, he attended the Stieglitz workshops between 1900 and 1903 in Berlin under the direction of the designer and typographer Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, who later called Aufseeser to be his successor.
In 1905 he moved to London where he attended the Slade School of Art for two years and by 1907 was working as an artist in Munich.
[2] From 1914 he taught as a professor of commercial art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, later succeeding Ehmcke as director of graphic design in 1919.