Siegfried Kortemeier

Biography

Jackets, bookbindings, signets, illustrations. Born 30 June 1906 in Gütersloh/ Westf. First trained as a lithographic printer. Later studied at the Meisterschule, Bielefeld, then the Hochschule der bildende Kunst, Berlin. By 1956: managed the Gütersloh publisher C. Bertelsmann.

Writings about

  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Siegfried Kortemeier’, Gg, Aug. 1934, pp. 2-7
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Siegfried Kortemeier’, Gg, April 1938, pp. 24-30
  • AfB, 1941
  • Vollmer, 1956
  • Hans A. Halbey, ‘Book-jackets as an advertising medium’, Gg, Aug. 1959, pp. 10-19.

Exhibitions

  • Heimatmuseum, Herford, 1952