Biography
Posters, publicity, catalogues , books. Born 2 April 1904 in Bielefeld. 1918-22: apprenticed as a lithographic printer. 1922-5: studied advertising art at Bielefeld Kunstgewerbeschule. 1925-30: design work for the printing firms Förster & Borries, Zwickau, and Hartung and Co., Hamburg. 1928-32: artistic manager of the book printer A. Wohlfeld, Magdeburg-Berlin. 1932-4: teaching assistant to Wilhelm Deffke at Magdeburg Kunstgewerbeschule. 1934-54: head of department for graphics and book art at Krefeld Werkkunstschule (also called Handwerkerschule). 1951: chairman of Ortsgruppe Düsseldorf-Niederrhein, BDG; designed (with others) the exhibition Deutsche Gebrauchsgraphik, Düsseldorf. 1954-69: head of graphic design at the Düsseldorf Staatlichen Kunstakademie. Art director of the fashion magazine Pfau-Moden. Died 16 September 1980 in Olsberg.
Writings by
- Who’s Who in Graphic Art, Zurich: Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis Press, 1962. , 1962 (ed.),
- Who’s Who in Graphic Art, 2nd ed., Dübendorf, 1982., 1982. (ed.),
Writings about
- ‘The graphic art classes at the Central School of German Arts and Crafts, Krefeld-Ürdingen’ (exh. review), Die zeitgemässe Schrift, Berlin/Leipzig: Verlag für Schriftkunde Heintze & Blanckertz., July 1938, pp. 2-14 ,
- Marken und Signete, Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1957 ,
- ‘Walter Breker’, Die zeitgemässe Schrift, Berlin/Leipzig: Verlag für Schriftkunde Heintze & Blanckertz., Jan. 1939, pp. 9-15 ,
- Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1950, p. 52 (poster)
- Typography – when/who/how, Cologne: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1998., 1998. , , ,
- ‘Aluminium advertising’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Sept. 1955, pp. 50-53 ,
- note on Pfau-Moden advertising catalogue, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1956, p. 61
- ‘The special stamps of the Federal Postal Services 1956’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., March 1957, pp. 22-7 ,
- report on WB’s exh., Klingspor Museum, Aus dem Antiquariat, 1972, pp. A365-6 ,
- ‘Federal Horticultural Exhibition 1961’ (poster competition), Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., March 1960, pp. 54-6 ,
- ‘German posters 1961/2’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Aug. 1962, pp. 10-23 ,
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Munich/Leipzig: K.G. Saur Verlag, 1990-., 1996
- ‘Walter Breker’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Nov. 1930, pp. 36-41 ,
- brief biography, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Dec. 1952, p. 55
- ‘Propaganda of banking houses’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., July 1954, pp. 28-31 ,
- ‘Pfau-Moden’ (fashion advertising), Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., April 1956, pp. 2-9 ,
- ‘The best German posters of 1955’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Aug. 1956, pp. 18-25 ,
- ‘The exhibition programmes of the German Council of Art’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., March 1959, pp. 48-53 (esp. p. 52) ,
- Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Jan. 1959, pp. 14-21 (Gg covers) ,
- ‘German posters 1959/60’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Aug. 1960, pp. 10-19 ,
- ‘The best German posters of 1962/3’, Gebrauchsgraphik (International Advertising Art), Berlin: Phönix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH (later: ‘Gebrauchsgraphik’ Druck und Verlag GmbH), 1933-71. Published from Munich from 1950., Aug. 1963, pp. 2-13 ,
Exhibitions
- Schriftmuseum, Berlin, 1938
- Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a.M., 1960
- Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1963
- Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven, 1967
- Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a.M., 1972
- Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1980.
Collections
- Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a.M.; Plakat Museum, Essen; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld