Eduard Ege

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Eduard Ege (born February 17, 1893 in Stuttgart , † August 10, 1978 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist and wood cutter .

life and work

Eduard Ege lived in Munich since 1898. From 1919 to 1921 he studied with Julius Diez at the Munich School of Applied Arts . He then settled in Munich as a freelancer. In 1921 he married the sculptor and silk weaver Clara Mohr (1897–1990) in Flensburg . As a typographer, he designed the Ege font (1921) and the Basalt (1926). He designed book covers and illustrations, often based on woodcuts, for major Munich-based publishers, including Georg Müller Verlag , Drei Masken Verlag and Delphin Verlag. After extensive study trips abroad and a longer stay in Paris, he took over the management of the Munich training workshops (formerly Debschitz School) in 1925, which he held until 1935. In 1923 and 1924 his work could be seen in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1923 he created the lettering, shop signs and house numbers for the Borstei housing estate in Munich's Moosach district. Ege was in close contact with the typographer Paul Renner . From 1927 Eduard Ege headed the graphics department at the master school for Germany's book printers founded by Renner . Ege taught there and at the successor organization, the Academy for the Graphic Arts Industry, until 1958. Since the 1920s, Munich, and especially the master school there, was a culmination point where the protagonists of the renewal of book design and typography such as Renner, Georg Trump and Jan Tschichold worked together. taught and influenced each other. Ege moved in this environment. Eduard Ege's most important designs include the Bavarian state coat of arms from 1945 and the Deutsche Bundesbahn signet used from 1955 to 1993 . As early as 1927, Ege designed a modern city coat of arms for Munich, which was used on the then council service of the city of Munich (it was designed by Wolfgang von Wersin , it was manufactured by the Nymphenburg porcelain factory ). In 1957 he designed the small and large new Munich city arms . From 1950 Ege was Art Director of the 1949 newly founded magazine Nutzgraphik (now Novum - world of graphic design ). He was a member of the Association of German Graphic Designers (today BDG Professional Association of German Communication Designers ). In 1973 he received the Medal of Honor from the City of Munich and became an honorary member of the BDG.

Building on experiences from the 1920s, when he created advertising stamps and took part in the competition for the stamps of the Bavarian Farewell Series, Ege designed stamps for the German Federal Post Office from 1958. A total of 13 realized brands designed by Eduard Ege resulted from 21 competition entries. The last time was stamps issued in 1967 for the Evangelical Church Congress (Mi. No. 536) and the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of the theses (Mi. No. 544).

  • Munich coat of arms , since 1957

  • Bavarian state coat of arms, since 1945

  • Logo of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, in use from 1955 to 1993

  • Postage stamp 800 years Munich of the Deutsche Bundespost, 1958

  • Postage stamp for 450 years of the posting of the theses on the Wittenberg Castle Church by Martin Luther , 1967

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personal data
SURNAME Ege, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter , graphic artist and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1978
Place of death Munich
  1. ↑ a b detailed biography from Horst Ludwig: Münchner Maler im 19./20. Century , Fifth Volume, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, p. 198 with further references
  2. ↑ Luc Devroye: Eduard Ege
  3. ^ Journal of Applied Arts and Crafts of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association, issue 8, 1930, p. 152
  4. ^ Moderator Cicero in the Bund-Forum der Philatelisten