Arno Drescher
Arno Drescher (born March 17, 1882 in Auerbach / Vogtland , † June 1, 1971 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter , graphic artist and typographer .
life and work
The son of the lettering and decoration painter Carl Gustav Drescher (1851–1898) and his wife Wilhelmine, née Warg, who was born in Auerbach / Vogtland , was introduced to painting at a young age through his father's profession. Drescher had two older brothers, Carl Gustav Jr., who died young, and Paul Gustav (1878–1937), who also learned the painting trade.
Arno Drescher finished school in 1902 at the Auerbach seminar with the Abitur (overall result: good); in the same year he passed the school board candidate examination. As a result, he was entitled under the School Act of 1873 to accept a position as an assistant teacher. He taught in Ortmannsdorf for two years and passed another exam at the Auerbach seminar in November 1904 with good results. This gave Drescher the opportunity to take a permanent position as a teacher at elementary schools. His teaching career ended in 1905; he moved to Dresden to study at the Dresden Art Academy / School of Applied Arts . In addition to studying art, he began to prepare for a degree as a specialist in drawing at the Royal Drawing School in Dresden. In 1907 he passed the exam with “excellent”. While still a student, Drescher led evening courses and trained future art teachers. He became a master student of Professor Richard Guhr .
In 1911 Arno Drescher married Elise Goller, a daughter of his lecturer, the glass painter Professor Josef Goller . The couple had five children: Renate (1915), Christine (1919), Erdmann (1920), Johannes (1922) and Christoph Albrecht (1928).
Drescher worked as a drawing teacher in Dresden and also worked freelance. In 1916 he opened his own studio in Dresden- Blasewitz . In 1920 he received a professorship for free, artistic and commercial graphics at the State Academy for Art and Industry in Dresden. Alfred Hesse was one of his students .
From 1921 Arno Drescher exhibited his graphic works together with artists such as Erich Heckel , Karl Hofer , Oskar Kokoschka , Max Liebermann , Emil Nolde , Max Pechstein , Christian Rohlfs and others. Drescher designed the exhibition poster for the 1st Reich Garden Show that took place in Dresden in 1936 , as well as for the “ Great Reich Exhibition of the Creative People ” in Düsseldorf .
From 1940 Drescher was deputy, later (until 1945) director of the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig.
In 1943 his studio in the academy was destroyed in the largest bomb attack on Leipzig. As a result, he lost almost all of his work for the past 30 years.
After 1945 he worked as a freelance graphic artist, typographer and painter in Leipzig. From 1952 numerous exhibitions took place in the GDR and the FRG. In 1960 Drescher moved from Leipzig to his daughter Christine in Braunschweig, where he lived until his death.
Arno Drescher designed, among other things, banknotes for the Deutsche Reichsbank , postage stamps, posters, signets and company logos, etc. a. the former trademark (or hood ornament ) of the Audi automobile brand , the logo for Hachez chocolate and fonts for various type foundries .
Font designs
Font name | First casting | Type foundry | Font assignment according to DIN 16518 |
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Appeal | 1933 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VIII: Scripts |
Arabella | 1936 | Ludwig Wagner KG, Leipzig | Group VIII: Scripts |
Arabella favorite | 1939 | Ludwig Wagner KG, Leipzig | Group VIII: Scripts |
Drescher's express writing | 1934 | Wilhelm Woellmer, Berlin | Group VIII: Scripts |
Drescher capital letters | 1927 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Duplex | 1937 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Energos | 1932 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VIII: Scripts |
Fundamentally grotesque , various cuts | 1938/39 | Ludwig Wagner KG, Leipzig | Group VI: Sans Serif Linear Antiqua |
Helion | 1935 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Manutius-Antiqua , various styles. Published in West Germany as: Antiqua 505 , various styles |
1954 1955–1957 |
Ludwig Wagner KG, Leipzig Johannes Wagner, Ingolstadt |
Group V: Serif linear antiqua |
Milo | 1940 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
onyx | 1936 | Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Super grotesque , various cuts | 1930-1938 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VI: Sans Serif Linear Antiqua |
Super eye-catching initials | 1932 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Super electrics | 1931 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Super reflex | 1931 | Schriftguss KG, Dresden | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Writer in italics , draft 1958 | Not published | Ludwig Wagner KG, Leipzig | Group VII: Antiqua variants |
Web links
- Drescher's memories of Blasewitz
- Archive Auerbach about Arno Drescher , PDF file, 1.9 MB
- Klingspor Museum , PDF, 744 kB
- Tea rose by Arno Drescher at Walther Hultsch
- Arno Drescher's works at Artnet
Individual evidence
- ^ Reichsgartenschau Dresden 1936. In: Picture index of art and architecture. Retrieved June 23, 2014 .
- ↑ Poster: Great Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk Schlageterstadt Düsseldorf 1937 , accessed on June 24, 2015.
- ↑ named after Aldus Manutius
- ↑ Klingspor Museum (see web links)
- ↑ Type sample publication of the Ludwig Wagner KG foundry, Leipzig, 07/1954: "Antiqua Manutius bold - Manutius narrow bold - based on designs by Professor Arno Drescher, Leipzig"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Drescher, Arno |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerbach / Vogtl. |
DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1971 |
Place of death | Braunschweig |