Herbert Bartholomaeus

Biography

Posters, publicity, book design, trademarks. Born 7 October 1910 in Berlin. Studied at the Riemann School. 1930-35: studied at the Berlin Akademie (where he was a Meisterschüler of O.H.W. Hadank), and at the Berlin Vereinte Staatschule für freie und angewandte Künste: a teacher was Ernst Böhm. From 1936: designer for the NSV [National Socialist Verlag?] where he worked on the journal Ewige Deutschland (Eternal Germany). From 1945: lived in Ludwigslust. He designed postage stamps, worked as illustrator (Decameron, Thousand and One Nights) for numerous publishers and on the journal Heute und Morgen. Awarded medals from DDR: Fritz Reuter Art Prize, and Johannes Becher Gold Medal. Died 11 March 1973 in Ludwigslust.

Writings about

  • Gg, March 1934, p. 58 (Berlin poster)
  • Werner Suhr, ‘Herbert Bartholomäus’, Gg, June 1938, pp. 31-8
  • Heute und Morgen, 1948, pp. 533-5
  • Günter Hess, ‘Hinweis auf Herbert Bartholomäus’, Marginalien, 1971, v. 42, pp. 56-60
  • Günter Hess, ‘Besuch bei Meister Barto’, EuG, 1971, pp. 21-3
  • Denkmale in Mecklenburg, Weimar, 1977
  • Die Kunst des Exlibris in der DDR, Weimar, 1984
  • AKL, 1992.

Collections

  • Ludwigslust; Lübtheen.

Exhibitions

  • Ludwigslust, 1946
  • Kulturbund-Haus, Schwerin, 1957
  • Bunte Stube, Ahrenshoop, 1963
  • Städt. Mus., Rostock, 1966.