Eva Aschoff

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Eva Aschoff (born April 26, 1900 in Göttingen ; died September 20, 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German type and book designer .

Live and act

Eva Aschoff trained at FHE Schneidler at the Stuttgart Art Academy and then trained as a bookbinder in Munich and Hamburg . From 1928–1964 she ran her own bookbinding workshop in Freiburg, where she designed book covers and colored paper in particular . Her work for Insel Verlag , Hanser Verlag and Fischer Verlag is particularly well known .

In the design of their designs, the idea of ​​a total work of art becomes clear, with Aschoff viewing books as everyday objects and turning away from the magnificent volume design. Aschoff is also considered to be the best-known representative of the monotype , a single-sheet printing process. As a late consequence of the labor-intensive post-war period, Aschoff's health deteriorated in the early 1960s; At the age of 64 she closed her workshop and took time for her painterly and graphic work.

reception

Since Aschoff shied away from the public associated with exhibitions, her free artistic work was never known to a broad public. It was a different story with her book and type artistic work, her name appeared regularly in contemporary newspaper and magazine reports, always in a row with important type artists. Nevertheless, the reception broke off in the following years.

Works

Eva Aschoff's works are part of the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers and the collection of the Klingspor Museum . There are bundles of colored paper, as well as written sheets and bindings for manuscripts by Rudolf Spemann .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Eva Aschoff, bookbinding art - bound art. In: Nutzgraphik, Vol. 2, H. 1, 1925, pp. 84, 87
  • Gerhard Bonhoff, Eva Aschoff: Bookbinding art - bound art. In: Imprimatur, 1958/60, pp. 18–26 plus 4- and 8-page insert (including photo by Eva Aschoff)
  • Modern German Book Design. Exhibition catalog, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , Frankfurt am Main and Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, 1959, p. 8, 26.
  • General indicator for bookbinders, November 1969, p. 658 (obituary, photo)
  • Mirjam Foot : The Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers. In: The British Library Journal. 7 (1), 1981, pp. 12-38. JSTOR 42554129
  • Jerry Kelly, Alice Koeth: Artist and Alphabet - Twentieth Century Calligraphy and Letter Art in America. David R. Godine, Jaffrey, New Hampshire 1982, ISBN 978-1-56792-118-2 , p. 123.
  • Arne Wolf: Reflections on visual / verbal fusion. In: Calligraphy Review, 1990, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 16-24.
  • General artist lexicon. KG Saur Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1990–1992.
  • Mirjam Foot: Studies in the History of Bookbinding. Scolar Press, Aldershot 1993, ISBN 978-0-85967-935-0 , p. 273.
  • Viviane Engelmann: Eva Aschoff - Introduction to the artistic work and introduction to the written sheets. Master's thesis, Freiburg 1993.
  • Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott , Bernard Stein : Typography - when / who / how. Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1998.
  • The Rupprecht press in Munich (auction catalog XLVI). Antiquariat Bibermühle, Ramsen and Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster 2001.
  • Eva Aschoff. (PDF). Klingspor Museum. Retrieved December 12, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Bonhoff: Eva Aschoff, bookbinding art - bound art . In: Imprimatur . 1958, p. 18-26 .
  2. ↑ a b Viviane Engelmann: Eva Aschoff - Introduction to the artistic work and introduction to the written sheets . Master's thesis, Freiburg.
  3. ↑ a b Julia Sea: Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012 . Ed .: Gerda Breuer / Julia Meer. jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 395 .
  4. ↑ Eva Aschoff. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aschoff, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typeface and book designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1969
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau