Arthur Schraml

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Arthur Schraml, photo 1936

Arthur Schraml (born June 2, 1907 in Bern , Switzerland; † February 20, 1999 in Ottobrunn near Munich ) was a German typesetter , typographer and commercial artist .

After completing school in Kitzbühel , Arthur Schraml moved to Munich in 1923. There he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During his apprenticeship he already studied at the state university for applied arts . Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke taught graphics and typography there and founded the Ehmcke group with his students. The Ehmcke Circle published the magazine Das Zelt. Sheets for creative work with around 100 issues. Arthur Schraml was the editor of several of these booklets. In 1928 the Ehmcke-Kreis got involved in the organization of the international press exhibition Pressa in Cologne. The following year Arthur Schraml worked as Ehmcke's assistant in Munich. Until he was called up for military service in 1940, he worked as a graphic designer , typesetter and print shop manager in Kitzbühel and Munich.

During the Second World War Schraml was stationed in Lithuania , where he drew around 70 city and village views and 60 illustrations for children. He later suffered a serious gunshot wound and did not return to Munich until 1948 from imprisonment and hospital. This was followed by alternating freelance work and employment as a graphic designer in various publishing houses. After his master's examination he also taught as a substitute teacher for typesetting at the master school for book printers . For two years he worked again as Ehmcke's assistant in Widdersberg .

His work included posters , advertising graphics , advertisements , signets , food packaging, letterheads and later book titles . Typical of his work is a reduction to characteristics both in writing and in representation. Four times (1955, 1956 and 1959) he won a tender for the design of a special stamp for the Deutsche Bundespost . In 1959 and 1979, books with their book title design received awards as one of the most beautiful books of the year from the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and Stiftung Buchkunst .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Postage stamp year 1955 of the Deutsche Bundespost
  2. ↑ Postage stamp year 1956 of the Deutsche Bundespost
  3. ^ Postage stamp year 1959 of the Deutsche Bundespost
  4. ^ Ulrich Häussermann: Peace Celebration. An introduction to Hölderlin's hymns of Christ. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich. Design of the cover and dust jacket: A. Schraml, Munich
  5. ↑ Jean Leclant (ed.): Egypt I, The Old and the Middle Kingdom. Publishing house CH Beck, Munich. Binding and dust jacket: A. Schraml, Munich

literature

  • Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke : Aims of writing lessons. Verlag Eugen Diederichs , Jena 1929. (With examples from Arthur Schraml)
  • Font. The tent / magazine of the Ehmcke circle. 11th year / issue 5–6 / Munich 1936 / 91. – 92. Tent booklet. Edited by Arthur Schraml, with his own work.


personal data
SURNAME Schraml, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1999
Place of death Ottobrunn