Gerhard C. Schulz

Biography

Publicity, trademarks, posters. Born 1 February 1911 in Halle, Saale. Studied at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1933: freelance. By 1939 he had a studio in Berlin with Kurt Prien; they produced publicity for pharmaceutical companies. Schulz was the photographer. 1942-5: military service. 1946-7: taught commercial art at the Berlin Fachschule für Graphik und Buchgewerbe. From 1951: lived in Hamburg.

Writings about

  • Traugott Schalcher, ‘Kurt Prien und Gerhard Schulz’, Gg, April 1939, pp. 25-30
  • ‘Bo’, ‘Chemie-Anzeigen’, Graphik, 1950, pp. 288-304, esp. p. 297
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Gerhard C. Schulz’, Gg, Dec. 1951, pp. 34-41
  • Vollmer, 1958
  • GKS, 1963, p. 254.

Exhibitions

  • Bücherstube Lowinsky, Berlin, 1947.