Ernst Kößlinger
Ernst Kößlinger (born May 16, 1926 in Munich , lives in Martinsried near Munich) is a Munich-based graphic artist and graphic designer .
Life
After an apprenticeship as process engraver Kößlinger began training as a commercial artist at the Master School of German printers in Munich with Edward Ege and Georg Trump . After military service and imprisonment from 1943 to 1945, he continued his training from 1946 to 1949. From 1949 to 1958 he worked as a freelance graphic designer in Munich and then taught at the Academy for the Graphics Industry until 1971 . From 1971 to 1990 he was professor of graphic design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences .
Ernst Kößlinger is a longstanding member and temporary chairman of the Association for Original Etching .
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Ernst Kößlinger created posters for cultural events (for example: Munich City Museum ), for tourism and industry. He designed the new annual poster for the Munich Oktoberfest several times . Since 1969, increasingly after his retirement, Kößlinger has participated in over a hundred design competitions for German special postage stamps . Over thirty designs prevailed.
In addition, he works as a freelance graphic artist. He prefers landscape paintings inspired by numerous trips through Europe using the techniques of etching , woodcut and linocut . While still a student he drew vedutas of the destroyed Munich, some of which were published in the magazine Der Simpl . Later on, too, he repeatedly created Munich vedutas in different printing techniques, including for the Munich Tourist Office.
Awards
- 1996 The design for Stamp Day 1995 is selected by an international jury as the most beautiful European stamp of 1995.
- 1998 awarded the Federal Cross of Merit .
- 2002 The draft for the block edition: 100 Years of German Antarctic Research is selected by an international jury as the most beautiful European brand of 2002.
Illustrations
- ETA Hoffmann , Klein Zaches. Munich: Verlag CH Beck / Frankfurt a. M .: Gutenberg Book Guild
literature
- Ernst Kößlinger. 1945–1965: Drawings, etchings, woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs, watercolors, gouaches; 1945–1975: posters, brochures. Munich 2003 ISBN 3-00-011710-5
Web links
- Drawings by Ernst Kößlinger in Der Simpl
- Ernst Kößlinger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kößlinger, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and graphic designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |