Biography
Books, woodcuts, photography. Born 1908 in Planitz, Saxony. 1924-6: studied at the Kunstgewerbliche Fachschule, Zwickau i. Sa. 1926-31: studied at the Staatliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe, Leipzig. Worked as teaching assistant in the commercial art department at the Akademie. After travels, he was a freelance designer, working for Verlag F.A. Brockhaus and other publishers. In 1934 he was designer for the publishers Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, and Förster & Borries in Zwickau.
Writings about
- , ‘Junge deutsche Büchkunstler’, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1934, pp. 699-784, esp. pp. 703, 744, 745
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Munich/Leipzig: K.G. Saur Verlag, 1990-., 1995.