Hans Pape

Biography

Wood engravings, type design, book design, posters, packaging, labels. Born August Rudolf Hans Pape 1 October 1894 in Hamburg. 1913-14: studied at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule. 1914-18: military service; severely wounded in 1918. 1918-20: studied at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule (where a teacher was Julius Diez). 1920-22: studied at the Munich Akademie: teachers included Adolf Schinnerer. 1920s: woodcut illustrations for publishers including George Müller (Munich), Eugen Diederichs (Jena). From 1925: founded, and taught for 35 years the class for lettering, book design and commercial art at the Münster Schule für Kunstgewerbe und Handwerk (later Werkkunstschule, and later still: Fachbereichs Design der Fachhochschule); designed publications and outdoor signs for the city of Münster. 1927: organised the Münster group of the BDG (Bundes Deutscher Gebrauchsgraphiker). 1967: teaching lettering, book design and commercial art at the Werkkunstschule, Münster. Died 30 December 1970 in Münster.

Writings about

  • 1923-50: Richard Braungart, ‘Hans Pape’, Exlibris, 1923, pp. 12-16
  • Hanns Scheller, ‘München und Reklame’, Die Reklame, May 1925, pp. 450-63
  • F.H. Ehmcke, ‘Deutsche Gebrauchsgraphik’, Klimschs Jahrbuch, 1927, pp. 9-37
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Hans Pape’, AfB, 1928, 50-p. supplement after p. 774
  • ‘Das politische Plakat’, Gg, April 1930, pp. 73-7
  • E. Hölscher, article on wine labels, Gg, April 1933, pp. 2-25, esp. p. 15
  • Walter F. Schubert, ‘Ausstellung in der Höheren Graphischen Fachschule der Stadt Berlin’ (wine labels), DzS, Oct. 1933, pp. 3-6
  • Walter von Zur Westen, ‘Die Schrift in der Gelegenheitsgraphik’, DzS, July 1934, pp. 7-23, esp. pp. 17, 18, 20
  • Hans Bockwitz, ‘Junge deutsche Büchkunstler’, AfB, 1934, pp. 699-784, esp. p. 700
  • Paul Pfund, ‘German advertising art 1936’, Gg, March 1936, pp. 3-61, esp. p. 22
  • Walter G. Oschilewski, ‘Eugen Diederichs and the German bookart’, AfB, 1936, pp. 399-416, esp. p. 413 and, in inset: dec. paper (1924)
  • E. Hölscher, ‘Comments on German book illustration’, AfB, 1937, pp. 1-20
  • Georg Belwe, ‘Written and printed script’, AfB, 1937, pp. 21-7, esp. after p. 24
  • AfB, 1938, pp. 386, 393
  • AfB, 1939, in inset between pp. 338/339 (exh. booklet), pp. 557, 558
  • E. Hölscher, ‘Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks, Münster/Westf. Abteilung für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leiter Hans Pape’, DzS, April 1942
  • Licht und Schatten. Vier deutsche Holzschneider, Wuppertal-Barmen: Woensampresse, 1950, then Scheuvens, 1951
  • 1951-present: comments on Licht und Schatten, in EuG, 1951, pp. 60-61
  • E. Hölscher, ‘Advertising art in post-war Germany’, Graphis 34, 1951, pp. 58-79
  • E. Hölscher, ‘Hans Pape, Münster’, Gg, Aug. 1951, pp. 16-21
  • Hanns Heeren, ‘Kleingraphik von Hans Pape’, EuG, 1962, pp. 51-2
  • Herbert Stefan Ott, ‘Hans Pape und seine Familien- und Gelegenheitsgraphik’, EuG, 1967, pp. 38-42 plus 2-p. supplement
  • obituary, Exlibris und Kleingraphik, 4, April 1971, pp. 30-31
  • Hans Laut, ‘Exlibris von Illustratoren’, Illustration 63, Aug. 1971, pp. 59-62
  • HAH, 1991
  • MGD, 1992 (includes bibliography)
  • Marginalien, 1994/1, pp. 56, 57 (1923 title pages)
  • Reinhard Herrmann, ‘Hans Pape zum 100. Geburtstag’, Illustration 63, Nov. 1994, pp. 86-91 (includes list of illustrated books)
  • Hans Pape (exh. cat.), Westfälischen Landesmuseums Westfalen-Lippe/Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule, Münster, 1994
  • Ute Willer, ‘”Die Judenbuch” und ihre Illustratoren’, Illustration 63, Nov. 1996, pp. 93-100, esp. p. 97.

Exhibitions

  • Modern German book-art, Leipzig, 1937 [1936?] (see AfB, 1937)
  • Suermondt Museum, Aachen, 1951
  • Westfalen-Lippe, Landesmuseum, 1994.

Collections

  • Landesmuseum, Münster
  • Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a.M.