Bruno K. Wiese

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Bruno Karl Wiese (born April 7, 1922 in Berlin ; † August 10, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German graphic designer .

life and work

Postage stamp from the Deutsche Bundespost on 50 years of the International Labor Organization (IAO) (1969)
Postage stamp from the Deutsche Bundespost for the third direct elections to the European Parliament (1989)
Postage stamp from the Deutsche Bundespost for the 4th direct elections to the European Parliament (1994)

From 1945 to 1949 Bruno K. Wiese studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In Professor OHW Hadank's class , he met his future wife Ruth. After graduating, Wiese and his wife initially worked in Hadank's atelier for commercial graphics in Hamburg, before they both founded their own visual design studio in Hamburg in 1954. Wiese designed trademarks, product packaging (especially for the cigarette industry) and special postage stamps (including two for the United Nations) and won numerous competitions, such as B. 1975 the competition to design the logo of the German Aerospace Society. In 1971 and 1982 he was invited to design the corporate design, especially the poster, for the Kieler Woche . From 1980 to 1987, Wiese held a professorship for communication design at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences (today Muthesius Academy of Art ). Wiese lived and worked in Hamburg until his death.

Wiese was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) (since 1974), the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB) and the Federation of German Graphic Designers (BDG).

Awards

literature

  • Bruno K. Wiese. Novum Nutzgraphik - International monthly magazine for communication design, 3rd issue 1989, Bruckmann, Munich. [60. Vintage; approx. 76 pages]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice - Kieler Nachrichten
  2. ↑ Bruno K. Wiese ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Logo for the DLR (Alliance Graphique Internationale) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / agi.org
  3. ^ Poster Kiel Week , 1971 (designspiration.net)
  4. ↑ Bruno K. Wiese: Kieler Woche object ( memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 1982 (Public Art in Schleswig-Holstein, Jan Petersen)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / witz-und-verstand.blog.de

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personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Bruno K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiese, Bruno Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2011
Place of death Hamburg