Biography
Advertising, packaging, display, typography, postage stamps, logos. Born 7 March 1925 in Greiz, Thuringia. Self taught. From 1945: freelance studio. 1947: designed publicity material for exhibitions and trade fairs for City of Düsseldorf. From 1949: designed for numerous industrial clients. Designed logo and book covers for S. Fischer Verlag. 1958: one of winning entries for stamp competition for State of Israel. Won numerous awards for his posters for industrial and commercial clients.
Writings by
- WWGA, 1962.
Writings about
- , ‘The best posters [of] 1949’, Graphik, 1950, pp. 368-72, esp. p. 370
- , ‘The best German posters of 1949’, Gg, July 1950, pp. 23-7
- , ‘Wolf D. Zimmermann’, Graphik, 1951, v. 3, pp. 123-31
- , ‘5 Jahre Nowea Werbung’, Gg, March 1953, pp. 36-43
- , ‘The publicity of the Volkswagen Works’, Gg, Feb. 1954, pp. 8-21
- , ‘Produktion, Verkaufsförderung, Werbung’ (Volkswagen publicity), Graphik, 1954, pp. 134-47 (esp. pp. 138, 139, 144, 145)
- , ‘Propaganda for the book’ (posters), Gg, June 1954, pp. 8-19 (esp. pp. 10, 16: Fisher posters)
- , ‘The publicity of the German Federal Railways, Gg, April 1955, pp. 2-9
- , ‘The best German posters of 1954’, Gg, Aug. 1955, pp. 2-7 (esp. pp. 5, 6)
- , ‘Advertising in perfect style without sales trouble’ (Volkswagen), Gg, June 1956, pp. 24-31 (esp. pp. 26, 29, 31)
- , ‘The best German posters of 1955’, Gg, Aug. 1956, pp. 18-25
- , ‘The special stamps of the Federal Postal Services 1956’, Gg, March 1957, pp. 22-7
- , ‘The best German posters of 1956, Gg, Aug. 1957, pp. 2-7
- , ‘The Fischer series of pocketbooks’, Gg, Jan. 1958, pp. 2-7
- , ‘The best German posters of 1957’, Gg, Aug. 1958, pp. 36-43 (esp. p. 37)
- , ‘Protective covers as an advertising medium’, Gg, Oct. 1958, pp. 14-27 (esp. p. 26)
- , ‘The exhibition programmes of the German Council of Art’, Gg, March 1959, pp. 48-53 (esp. p. 53)
- , ‘Book-jackets as an advertising medium’, Gg, Aug. 1959, pp. 10-19
- , ‘The advertising book-jacket’, Gg, Sept. 1960, pp. 8-17
- , 1961
- , ‘The face of German paperbacks’, Gg, Feb. 1963, pp. 10-19
- , ‘The best German posters of 1962/3’, Gg, Aug. 1963, pp. 2-13
- , ‘The advertising book-jacket 1962’, Gg, Oct. 1963, pp. 8-19
- , 1986
- , 1992.
Exhibitions
- Santiago (Chile), 1955
- Ankara, Istanbul, 1956-7
- Dublin, Warsaw, 1958.