Heinz Beck

Biography

Type design, logos, collector( ?). Designed the typefaces Möwe (1929) and Brahms Gothic (c1937), both issued by Genzsch & Heyse, Hamburg). The Heinz Beck collection of conceptual art was exhibited in 1991.

Writings about

  • Fluxus & Concept-art (exh. cat.), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, 1991.
  • note on Heinz Beck, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Nov. 1937, p. 65
  • Paul Helms, ‘Gebrauchsgraphik in Hamburg’, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., March 1937, pp. 107-20, esp. p. 120