Leopold Nettelhorst

Biography

Packaging, typography. Born 30 September 1905 in Friedland, Bohemia. After 1919: settled in Berlin. 1925-8: studied at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Hochschule für freie und angewandte Kunst: a teacher was O.H.W. Hadank. He was later a studio director for Julius Gipkens. 1931-40: freelance work, especially for publishers Ullstein and Scherl; designed technical publications.

Writings by

  • Aussenwerbung. Werbung am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum, Munich: Callwey, 1952
  • Schrift muss passen
  • ‘Emanation of a personality. Works of former pupils of Professor O.H.W. Hadank, Hamburg’ (Werner Beucke, Nettelhorst, Eduard Sauer, Martin Wilke, Walter Herdeg), Gg, Aug. 1954, pp. 6-39.

Writings about

  • Fritz Genzmer, ‘Firm symbols’ (logos, based on G. Finsterer-Stuber, Marken und Signete), AfDuP, 1957, v. 3, pp. 312-15 (esp. p. 313)
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Leopold Nettelhorst’, Gg, May 1960, pp. 42-7.