Alfred Riedel

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Alfred Riedel (born March 23, 1906 in Waldkirch ; † March 9, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German book illustrator , lithographer and type graphic artist .

Life

After his apprenticeship as a lithographer, he studied at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and was a master student of Rudolf Koch . From 1935 he worked as a book designer for the Herder publishing house .

After the Second World War , together with the Freiburg writer and pacifist Reinhold Schneider, he wrote the inscriptions on the memorial for November 27, 1944 in Freiburg.

Services

Alfred Riedel had registered designs on three of the font designs he had designed: Adamas , Adamas Unizale (manufactured by Monotype for photo typesetting ), both for Herder Verlag, and Domino , for Ludwig & Mayer.

Works

Hymn : title page of the text edition (2nd edition, 1938)

Font graphics

  • Hymn , 1938
  • Hubert Baum: Dipfili-Däpfili. Gätzli for chlaini Lüt, with pictures from Ilse Baum; written by Alfred Riedel , Crone, Freiburg i.Br. 1948 [DNB: 1949]
  • Inscription on the memorial for November 27, 1944 in Freiburg

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Journey to the Kingdom of God. A book on the aspirations of young Christians , 1937
  • Maria Oderisia Knechtle: Through the church year with the child , 1939 (6th edition 1968)
  • Franz Weigl: A picture book from God. Herder, Freiburg 1939
  • Reinhold Schneider : The Way of the Cross. Verlag "Alsatia", Kolmar i. E. [1942]
  • Reinhold Schneider: The grace of time. Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg (im Breisgau), Berlin, Düsseldorf 1947
  • Maria Oderisia Knechtle: Vive y canta con la Iglesia. Herder, Barcelona 1960
  • Maria Oderisia Knechtle: Deepening faith through the symbol. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 1963
  • Canta bona [main work], 1949 (19th edition 1966)
  • Joseph Solzbacher (arr.): Commentary and catechesis on the Book of Faith for the 3rd and 4th school year. Part 2. New Testament Part , 1965

literature

  • Obituary in: Das Münster , Volume 22, Issues 2–4, 1969, p. 137.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alfred Riedel. (PDF; 178 kB) Klingspor Museum , accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ute Scherb: "We get the monuments that we deserve". Freiburg monuments in the 19th and 20th centuries. City archive, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-923272-31-6
  3. ^ Christian Geinitz: War memorial in Freiburg: mourning, cult, repression. J. Haug Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1995, ISBN 3-928276-06-9 , p. 215.
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book illustrator, lithographer and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirch
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1969
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau