Uli Huber

Biography

Posters, wrappings, publicity, logos, lettering, stamps. Born 3 August 1902 in Strassburg. Studied at art schools in Strassburg and, 1920-24, Stuttgart. By 1936: living in Berlin. 1946-9: head of the Meisterschule für Graphik und Buchgewerbe, Berlin. By 1950: representative of the Landesgruppe Berlin, BDG; By 1965: head of the graphic design department, Staatliches Lehrinstitut für Graphik, Druck und Werbung, Berlin.

(Another Uli Huber, born 1878, was a Viennese painter.)

Writings by

  • Werbung + Graphik (with Eugen Johannes Maecker), Berlin: Kulturbuch Verlag, 1954
  • Advertising art’, AfDuP, 1965/1, p. 74.

Writings about

  • Hans Thaddäus Hoyer, ‘Schrift und Gebrauchsgraphik’, Gg, (2nd year: 1926?), Heft 1, p. 32
  • ‘Uli Huber’, Gg,, March 1930, p. 70 (printed matter for the advertising ball, Berlin)
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Uli Huber’, Gg, Oct. 1931, pp. 2-8
  • ‘Uli Huber’, Gg, March 1934, pp. 50-57
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘Das Bild auf der Packung’, Klimschs Jahrbuch, pp. 39-45, esp. p. 41
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Posters for sparkling wine’, Gg, Aug. 1936, pp. 54-5
  • H.K. Frenzel, ‘Calendars 1937’, Gg, Jan. 1937, pp. 36-41
  • Franz Hermann Wills, ‘Graphik aus Berlin/Graphik für Berlin’, Graphik, 1953, pp. 638-49, esp. pp. 639, 642
  • note on Werbung + Graphik, in Graphis 52, 1954, p. 165
  • Eberhard Hölscher, ‘The special stamps of the Federal Postal Services 1956’, Gg, March 1957, pp. 22-7
  • Franz Hermann Wills, ‘Berlin’s advertising art’, AfDuP, 1957, v. 2, pp. 183-92 (esp. p. 191)
  • Fritz Genzmer, ‘Firm symbols’ (logos, based on G. Finsterer-Stuber, Marken und Signete), AfDuP, 1957, v. 3, pp. 312-15 (esp. p. 313).