Arno Drescher

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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

Designed by Arno Drescher
Arabella , there were variations of the capital letters in this lead font (lower lines)
Antiqua 505 half bold (Manutius-Antiqua half bold), metal type print of 20p font

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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsgartenschau Dresden 1936. In: Picture index of art and architecture. Retrieved June 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Poster: Great Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk Schlageterstadt Düsseldorf 1937 , accessed on June 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ named after Aldus Manutius
  4. ↑ Klingspor Museum (see web links)
  5. ↑ 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
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