Detailansicht
German graphic designers
Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Balet, Friedrich Kurt Fiedler, Jamiri, Christoph Meckel, Peter Behrens, Erik Spiekermann, Lucian Bernhard, Peter Zizka, Gerd Arntz, Frank Rocholl, Otl Aicher, Julia Hasting
ISBN/EAN: 9781155844015
Umbreit-Nr.: 4089615
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 32 S.
Format in cm: 0.3 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 22.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Balet, Friedrich Kurt Fiedler, Jamiri, Christoph Meckel, Peter Behrens, Erik Spiekermann, Lucian Bernhard, Peter Zizka, Gerd Arntz, Frank Rocholl, Otl Aicher, Julia Hasting, Wolfgang Weingart, Helmuth Ellgaard, Peter Seitz, Thomas Manss, Fons Hickmann, Henri Kay Henrion, Frank Jonen, Anton Stankowski, Jan Koemmet, Otto Hermann Werner Hadank, Stefan Guzy, Cioma Schönhaus, Louis Oppenheim, Marian Kretschmer, Hans Bohn, Arthur Eisenmenger, Martin Kornmesser, Rudolf Grüttner, Hans Schweitzer, Wilhelm Ripe, Julius Diez, Adolf Schinnerer, Ougrapo. Excerpt: Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887, at No.2 Rumannstraße, Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette (née Beckemeyer). His parents were proprietors of a ladies' clothes shop. They sold the business in 1898, using the money to buy five properties in Hanover which they rented out, allowing the family to live off the income for the rest of Schwitter's life in Germany. In 1901 the family moved to Waldstraße (later Waldhausenstraße) 5, future site of the Merzbau. The same year, Schwitters suffered his first epileptic seizure, a condition that would exempt him from military service in World War I until the last stages of the conflict, when conscription began to be applied to a far wider section of the population. After studying art at the Dresden Academy alongside Otto Dix and George Grosz, (although Schwitters seems to have been unaware of their work, or indeed of contemporary Dresden artists Die Brücke), 1909-14, Schwitters returned to Hanover and started his artistic career as a post-impressionist. As the First World War progressed, however, his work became darker, gradually developing a distinctive expressionist tone. Expressionism was a predominantly German artistic movement best exemplified by Die Brücke, and by the paintings of Emil Nolde and Ernst Kirchner in particular. Schwitters spent most of the war working as a technical draftsman in a factory just outside Hanover. He was drafted into the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in March 1917, but exempted as unfit in June of the same year. By his own account, his time a