Eva Grossberg

Eva Grossberg (born October 2, 1924 in Sommerhausen ; † September 14, 2014 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and designer .

Life

Origin and occupation

Eva Grossberg was the eldest daughter of Carl Grossberg , the internationally important industrial painter from the New Objectivity period ; her mother was the musician Tilde geb. Black. Eva Grossberg graduated from the Elisabeth von Thadden School in Heidelberg in 1943 and then did a year of labor service in Alsace (1943/1944). From 1944 to 1945 she studied set design at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar . From 1945 she worked as a freelance painter in the summer house studio of her father, who had died in 1940. From 1947 to 1989 she worked as a product and interior designer for the Bahlsen company . She designed over 250 luxury and gift boxes, which are now highly regarded as collector's items, designed the decorations in the Hanover headquarters and shaped the furnishings of the company buildings worldwide. From 1961 to 1971 she was also responsible for all graphic work at the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory .

Publications

• “What remains is his work”. In: Carl Grossberg. Retrospective for the 100th birthday. DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-3366-8 , pp. 8-31.
• The blue baboon. Inventions. Images contra torrentem. KunstSCHÄTZE Verlag, Gerchsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-934223-34-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bröhan-Museum: Eva Grossberg, designer of the Bahlsen biscuit jars, deceased . September 16, 2014 ( broehan-museum.de ; wrong date of death [PDF]).