Eberhard Hölscher

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Eberhard Hölscher (born February 12, 1890 in Geesthacht ; † August 27, 1969 in Munich ) was a German commercial artist , specialist book author , editor and publisher .

Life

Hölscher studied in Berlin, Paris and Munich; In 1920 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the literary and personal relationships between Julius von Voss and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim at the University of Kiel . From 1925 he was Secretary General of the Association of German Commercial Graphics and its President from 1948 to 1965. From 1937 on he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Nutzgraphik , founded by KH Frenzel in 1924 , with the explanatory subtitle Monthly for the Promotion of Artistic Advertising , which was also distributed in the USA. After the magazine had to be discontinued in 1944, Hölscher re- founded it in 1950 at Bruckmann Verlag in Munich. In the 1950s, Hölscher taught at the master school for the graphic arts in Munich.

In 1955, Hölscher published the monograph The Draftsman Th. Th. Heine . In the preface he describes his encounter with Thomas Theodor Heine , who had been hiding under a false name since 1933 and who had fled to Berlin, where Hölscher lived. Neither of them knew each other personally until then, but they were in correspondence.

Honors

  • 1955: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1966: Great Cross of Merit

Fonts (selection)

  • Gleim and Voss in their personal and literary relationships , Berlin 1921
  • Writing in architecture (with Georg Scheja), Heintze & Blanckertz , Berlin, Leipzig 1938
  • Emil Preetorius . The complete work . Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin, Leipzig 1943
  • Concise dictionary for book collectors . Hauswedell, Hamburg 1947 (109 pages)
  • Aubrey Beardsley . Hauswedell, Hamburg 1949 (XXIV, 96 pages)
  • German illustrators of the present . Bruckmann, Munich 1959 (239 pages)
  • (Ed.): German commercial graphics . Bruckmann, Munich 1967 (159 pages)

literature

  • Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often unlikely. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-465-X , p. 441, short biography of Eberhard Hölscher: pages 287–288.
  • Dr. phil. Eberhard Hölscher. February 12 , 1890 - August 27 , 1969, In: Nutzgraphik 40, 1969, 10

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Wilhelm Ludewig Gleim: Selected works: Writings of the Gleimhaus , Wallstein-Verl. Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-498-6 , bibliography p. 623
  2. ↑ Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often improbable. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile , Göttingen 2002, short bio by Eberhard Hölscher: pages 287–288
  3. ↑ Bernhard Denscher: Scientific research and literature on the history of poster art, German Historical Museum
  4. ↑ The novum story since 1924 ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often improbable. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile , Göttingen 2002, pages 287–288
  6. ↑ Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often improbable. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-465-X , p. 441
personal data
SURNAME Hölscher, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist, specialist book author, editor and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Geesthacht , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1969
Place of death Munich , Germany