Anton Wolff

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Postage stamp from 1948, design: Anton Wolff

Anton (Toni) Wolff (born February 6, 1911 in Cologne ; † 1980 ibid) was a German graphic artist and art professor.

Wolff studied painting and graphics from 1928 to 1931 with professors Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Richard Seewald and Heinrich Hussmann .

In 1934, together with Franz M. Jansen , Käthe Schmitz Imhoff , Irmgart Zumloh and Wilhelm Geißler, he founded the Woensam press , named after Anton Woensam , a copper engraver, wood cutter and art printer of the 16th century. The high and traditional artistic claim that went hand in hand with the choice of name should be understood as a kind of "seal of quality".

The group of artists was based in the studio houses on Bonner Strasse 500–506 provided by the City of Cologne. The issue and sale of inexpensive original graphics and prints appeared to this "Werkgemeinschaft Deutscher Grafiker" to be financially more promising than to present unsaleable paintings in exhibitions and galleries. In 1941 Anton Wolff's former teacher Hussmann became a member of the Woensam press. Hussmann encouraged his former student, and one year later Wolff became head of a class for factual and figurative drawing at the master school of the Hanseatic City of Cologne .

In 1946 Wolff was involved in founding the Cologne Artists Working Group , which was able to put through annual exhibitions financed by the City of Cologne. The organization was in the hands of the art association, the judging was incumbent on the members of the working group. In the same year the Cologne factory schools were reopened and Wolff was taken on as a subject teacher for composition and drawing. In 1968 he was appointed head of the graphic design department and in 1973 professor in the art and design department at Cologne University of Applied Sciences . In 1976 he retired.

For 40 years, Anton Wolff has helped shape the public image of numerous institutions, authorities and companies (such as art associations, garden shows, WDR, city administration, savings banks, concerts, summer academies, etc.). Large and small format pictures on paper, canvas and wall in public and private collections and houses bear witness to his diverse work.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Steimel: Kölner Köpfe , Steimel Verlag, Köln-Zollstock 1958, column 442.
2. ^ ^{A b} Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (Ed.): Music. Theatre. Dance. Literature. Museums - art and culture in Cologne after 1945. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-87909-455-1 , pp. 161, 183.