Biography
Book jackets, posters. Born 20 October 1911 in Karlsruhe. 1929-31; student at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe: a teacher was Wilhelm Schnarrenberger. 1931-2: studied at the Karlsruhe Kunstgewerbeschule; one of his teachers was Max Körner. 1932-3: studied at the Berlin Hochschule der bildenden Künste with O.H.W. Hadank. From 1934: freelance, and later worked in France, England and the USA.
Writings about
- , ‘Wege der Textilwerbung’, Graphik, 2, 1951, pp. 60-71, esp. p. 67
- ‘Das werbende Bild’, Graphik, 5, 1952, pp. 304-9, esp. p. 307
- , ‘Gerd Grimm, Freiburg’, Gg, Oct. 1951, pp. 2-9
- brief biography, Gg, Dec. 1954, p. 58
- , 1961
- , ‘The best German posters of 1962/3’, Gg, Aug. 1963, pp. 2-13
- , ‘A world of calendars’, Gg, May 1964, pp. 30-45
- , ‘The best German posters of 1963/4’, Gg, Aug. 1964, pp. 2-17
- , 1986.