Luitpold Domberger

Luitpold Domberger (born November 6, 1912 in Höfen an der Enz ; † September 14, 2005 ) was a pioneer of artistic screen printing in Germany.

Life

Luitpold (Poldi) Domberger studied from 1928 at the art and trade school in Pforzheim, where he then worked as a freelance commercial artist before moving to Stuttgart in the mid-1930s. At the end of the 1940s he came into contact with the new medium of screen printing through a visit to an exhibition in the Amerikahaus in Stuttgart. At that time, the American printing technology was still little known in Germany and technically it was still in its infancy. After various experiments with the simplest tools, he set up his first screen printing workshop in 1949 at Gänsheidestrasse 26 in Stuttgart. His neighbor there was the artist Willi Baumeister . When he inquired about the new printing technology, the screen printer and the artist worked together, which resulted in almost 60 serigraphs being produced between 1950 and Baumeister's death in 1955. Inspired by the first exhibitions of the Baumeister screen prints, other artists soon also had Domberger print. In the years that followed, Domberger had a decisive influence on the newly emerging profession of the screen printer; Young printers like Hans-Peter Haas emerged from his workshop. At the end of the 1960s, Edition Domberger was founded at the new printing site in Plattenhardt near Stuttgart, which continues to this day under the management of his son, the screen printer Michael Domberger.

Luitpold Domberger died on September 14, 2005. In November 2009 it was announced that the state of Baden-Württemberg had acquired the Michael Domberger collection with important original serigraphs, templates, proofs, status prints, etc. It is housed on one floor of the Domberg company building and will be scientifically processed.

Works as a screen printer

The intensive collaboration between Domberger and Baumeister gave artistic screen printing (serigraphy) important impulses in Germany. From the 1950s onwards, Domberger created serigraphs for many internationally known artists, including Max Ackermann , Josef Albers , Max Bill , Richard Estes , Adolf Fleischmann , Otto Herbert Hajek , Richard Hamilton , Robert Indiana , Nicholas Krushenick , Roy Lichtenstein , Georg Karl Pfahler , Victor Vasarely and Ben Willikens . Screen prints from Domberger can now be found all over the world at trade fairs, in the art trade and in many graphic auctions and collections.

Luitpold Domberger was a co-founder of the Association of German Screen Printers and played a key role in founding FESPA in 1961/62. His early advocacy of the new medium of screen printing contributed to Stuttgart becoming a “center for the artistic screen printing world” in the 1960s, which has produced many other well-known screen printers such as Hans-Peter Haas , Roland Geiger and Frank Kicherer.

literature

• Heinz Spielmann: Willi Baumeister. The graphic work 1. The serigraphs , in: Yearbook of the Hamburg Art Collections, Volume 8, Hamburg 1963, pp. 85–106.
• Edition Domberger Filderstadt. Catalog raisonné 1-2 , published in 2002.
• Karl Bachler: Serigraph. History of artist screen printing . Lübeck 1977.
• Curt Vinz, Günter Olzog : Documentation of German-Language Publishers, Volume 8. G. Olzog, Munich, 1983, p. 117.

Web links

• Edition Domberger's website
• Esslinger Zeitung: The artist's third hand , article from March 23, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Esslinger Zeitung: Land buys Domberger Collection . Article dated November 12, 2009 , accessed April 5, 2011
2. ↑ FESPA website: When and why was FESPA formed? ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 5, 2011 
3. ↑ FESPA WORLD Issue 42 (English)