Bruno Skibbe (graphic designer)

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Bruno Hans Skibbe (born June 8, 1906 in Rixdorf near Berlin ; died 1975 in Braunschweig ) was a German typesetter , typographer and graphic artist who made book illustrations , woodcuts and bookplates in particular .

Life

Skibbe began his artistic training as a typesetter. In 1923 he finished his training at the State Academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig . From 1929 to 1932 he attended courses on book technology and design at the “Bildungsverband Deutscher Buchdrucker”, where he was mainly influenced by the typographer Curt Reibetantz. From 1932 he taught typography and graphics himself at the “Technikum für Buchdrucker” in Leipzig; In the same year he attended master classes with Georg Belwe and Hans Alexander Müller at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade . From 1935 he was a teacher at the Berlin master school for graphics and book trade . From 1930 to 1939 he worked for industrial companies and book publishers, especially for the Gutenberg Book Guild . During the Second World War, he drew weather maps for the German navy in Athens and Rhodes . In Egypt he was captured by the British; in this camp he instructed his fellow prisoners in drawing and writing ; he designed walls for English pubs . After the war, now back in Germany, he continued to work as a book designer and typographer. From 1947 to 1950 he advised the "Verlag des Druckhaus Tempelhof " in Berlin. From 1950 to 1963 Skibbe taught at the Werkkunstschule in Braunschweig.

In 1953 Skibbe was one of the founding fathers of the "International Association of Wood Engravers", XYLON.

Skibbe had a close relationship with the Borek family , as well as with Georg Eckert , whom he said he had met at the end of the war while fleeing from the Allies and their contact with ELAS . Accordingly, Skibbe has been illustrating his publishing products since the 1950s, especially the cover for the archive for social history comes from him.

Exhibitions of his work have been seen in Paris, London, Rome, New York, Chicago, Tokyo and Beijing.

Works

His numerous art products can be found in book second-hand bookshops, especially under "Gutenberg Book Guild"

literature

  • Hans H. Bockwitz : "Something Skibbe" . Philobiblon. Supplement, Vol. 10, 1938
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of the Fine Artists of the 20th Century. Leipzig 1958
  • Friedrich Pfäfflin : 100 years of S. Fischer Verlag 1886 - 1986. Book covers: About books and their external form. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1986 ISBN 9783100612021
  • Christian Mühlner, Fritz Schwarzenberger: Bruno Skibbe in memory. Illustration 63 , April 1990, pp. 7-11
  • Julius Rodenberg : woodcuts and graphics by Bruno Skibbe. Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics . Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein Leipzig, January 1934, pp. 1–16
  • Hans Bockwitz: Young German book artists. Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics. Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1934, pp. 699–784
  • Christmas and New Year cards, Archive for Book Trade and Commercial Graphics, German Book Trade Association, Leipzig January 1936, pp. 31–42, especially p. 40
  • Walter Hofmann : The development of the German advertising graphics. Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics. German Book Trade Association, Leipzig 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Rixdorf I, No. 1794/1906
  2. ↑ with a list of book illustrations, book cover, book and advertisement designs by Sk.
  3. ↑ With bibliography of his book guild products 1930–1966
  4. ↑ Skibbe: pp. 702, 708, 726h, 741, 768b, 768c, 775
personal data
SURNAME Skibbe, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skibbe, Bruno Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typesetter, typographer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Braunschweig