Christian Diener (graphic designer)

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Christian Diener (born December 11, 1937 in Leipzig ; † May 18, 2016 in Greece ) was a German graphic designer and art director. He is one of the most important German pioneers of post-war photography. One of his achievements is his own photographic work, the founding of the Berlin gallery “Camera Work” and the collection of important photographic works. Christian Diener has also gained importance through his work as a graphic artist and art designer for German magazines and book publishers.

Life

Diener spent childhood and youth in Leipzig. In 1944 he started school in Leipzig. He was later refused entry into high school because of “wrong parents”. From 1952 to 1954 he did an apprenticeship with a journeyman's examination as a chromolithographer. He achieved the special maturity examination on the second educational path through evening courses. He then studied from 1956 to 1958 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig: class photography. In 1958 he was forcibly de-registered. After fleeing to West Germany, Christian Diener studied from 1959 to 1962 at the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin (HFBK) in the class of commercial graphics and photography with Helmut Lortz . In 1962 he wrote his thesis. In 1964 he married the graphic artist and designer Ulrike Diener, with whom he lived until her death in 2001. You have a daughter, Anina Diener . He lived in Cologne for a short time in 1962, in Munich from 1964 and moved to Berlin in 1996. In 2016 he died in Ios , Greece.

Artistic career

  • 1956 member of the group “action photography”. Until de-registration, winner of 15 prizes in Germany and abroad, and a. in West Germany twice the German Youth Photo Prize.
  • 1962 Design of a traveling exhibition about the University of Fine Arts in a master class as a final thesis. As assistant to Professor L. Fritz Gruber, Christian Diener was responsible for the design of the cultural picture shows at “photokina63” (the most important international trade fair for photography) including an exhibition with his own pictures.
  • 1963 Overall design of the UNESCO touring exhibition "see, learn and understand"
  • 1964 Overall design of the traveling exhibition for "Internationes" about six young German photographers - including Christian Diener himself.
  • 1964–1965 assistant to art director Willy Fleckhaus at the Twen magazine .
  • 1965 Design of three picture shows for “ photokina 66” about JH Lartigue, Cecil Beaton and great fashion photographers. The magazine "Twen" publishes numerous picture stories by Christian Diener.
  • 1966–1970 Art Director at Burda in Munich
  • 1966 Art Director for the SPD election campaign in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • 1967 Overall design of the “Munich Museum of Modern Art” in the Villa Stuck .
  • 1969 Overall design of two picture shows for "photokina 70" on "Pin up" photography and "Four Masters of Erotic Photography"
  • 1970 to 1972 Conceptual redesign of the Munich Photo Museum.
  • 1971 to 1996 film posters for the authors' film publishing house, Futura Film, Neue Constantin Film and Senator Film
  • 1974 Franz Hanfstaengl found the “Contemporary Album”.
  • 1975 appointment as a full member of the German Society for Photography.
  • 1976 Development of the "East Side" a magazine by authors.
  • 1983–1987 Art Director at Zeit-Magazin in Hamburg
  • 1987 Art Director of Harper's Bazaar
  • 1989 Art Director of Holiday

Guest lecturer at the Munich Journalist School

Camera Work gallery

Together with Gerd Elfering, Christian Diener implemented the idea, conception and founding of the Camera Work gallery in Berlin in 1997 . Christian Diener discovered the depot house on Kantstrasse in Charlottenburg, designed the extension and designed graphics (logo, posters, portfolios).

Christian Diener curated a. a. the following exhibitions:

For each exhibition, bound portfolios were edited in limited editions with original prints by the respective photographer. Michael Krüger wrote the lyrics .

curator

Image conceptual and graphic new developments of newspapers, journals, magazines

  • Burda Verlag: "M"
  • Gruner + Jahr: "Impulse"
  • Springer-Verlag : "Liva", "Report", "Die Welt"
  • Opel AG: "Calibra"
  • Handelsblatt publishing group: " Wirtschaftswoche "

Design of movie posters

Design book series

Prices

  • Award from the Art Directors Club
  • Kodak Book Prize
  • Most beautiful book of the year

literature

  • Magazine: "Twen 7/1964"
  • L. Fritz Gruber: "Glanzlichter und Schlagschatten", Cologne 1988
  • Michael Koetzle: "Twen. Revision of a legend", Munich 1995

Web links

  • Time online [1]
  • Tagesspiegel about Leni Riefenstahl exhibition at Camera Work [2]
  • World [3]
  • Abebooks [4]

4 Masters of Erotic Photography Christian Diener, Walther Schünemann (Ed.): Masters of Erotic Photography. Guy Bourdin, Hans Feurer, Guido Mangold, Christian Vogt. Heyne, Munich 1972

History action photography 1956–1957 [5]

Auction catalog Griesebach, Portfolios Camera Works [6]

Gunter Sachs exhibition in Hamburg [7]

Mirror on Franz Hanfstaengel [8]

Photographer Wiki [9]

personal data
SURNAME Servant, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer and art director
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2016
Place of death Greece