Franz Timm

Biography

Trademarks, posters, bookbindings. Born 1895 in Berlin. 1921-5: studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, then at the Vereingten Staatschule, Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he was a student of E.R. Weiss and Hadank. As a freelance designer he worked for publishers and industrial firms. 1934: living in Berlin.

Writings about

  • ‘Franz Timm’, Gg, March 1932, pp. 42-5
  • Hans Bockwitz, ‘Junge deutsche Büchkunstler’, AfB, 1934, pp. 699-784, esp. pp. 708, 759, 774
  • Walter Hofmann, ‘Graphische Künstler als Gestalter religioser Gesinnung’, AfB, Aug. 1935, pp. 433-50
  • ‘Lemke’, ‘Über Dynamik’, AfB, Dec. 1935, p. 643.