Franz Paul Glass

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Franz Paul Glass , occasionally Glaß written (* 17th May 1886 in Munich , † 15. February 1964 ibid), was a German graphic designer , painter , illustrator and typographer .

Life

Franz Glass grew up as the son of the eponymous confectioner and purveyor to the court and his wife Marie, b. Prem, in Munich. In the school year 1897/98 he attended the 1st class of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium , was not transferred and resigned. From 1906 to 1910 he studied figure drawing and decorative painting with Julius Diez , technical drawing, geometry, projection theory and perspective with Max Kleiber (1850–1925), ornament and natural drawing with Hans Wolf (1839–1912) and Adelbert Niemeyer at the Munich School of Applied Arts , took part in the “Abendakt” with Alois Erdelt (1851–1911) and heard lectures in art history and style with Ernst Wilhelm Bredt , Hans Cornelius and Walter Riezler . From 1909 to 1910 he stayed in Italy. He then settled in Munich as a freelance painter, graphic artist, advertising designer and interior designer. In 1925 he married Maria Altmann, the daughter of a floor layer, in Munich. Glass died after a short illness; his grave in Munich's north cemetery was abandoned in 1995.

In 1914 Glass founded the artist group " The Six " with Valentin Zietara , Friedrich Heubner , Carl Moos , Emil Preetorius and Max Schwarzer and was also a member of the second formation of this group, founded in 1924. He was a member of the German Society for Christian Art , the Munich artists' association "Der Bund" (MKVB), the " Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft ", the Munich Art Association, the " Reich Association of German Artists " and the "Conference for Christian Art Munich". In 1922 he was a member of the artists' committee of the German Trade Show in Munich.

Glass designed exhibition and advertising posters, among others for the Association of Munich Poster Artists "The Six" (1914), Luxus Automobilgesellschaft Dion Monopol (1907), German Brewery Exhibition Munich (1909), Alte Hausmusik - XIII. German National Singers Festival Munich (1912), amusement park exhibition (1914), ADAC - Costume Ball (1920), Sektkellerei Karl Schwarz, Bad Kreuznach: House brand Kloster Gold (around 1921), German confectionery trade exhibition (1921), Fumaro tobacco -Gesellschaft mbH Munich (around 1925), Das Bayerische Handwerk (1927), The Festival in Reklamien - One Night on Broadway , (1929), and Promotes Air Sports (1933), as well as numerous advertising brands for, among others, Löwenbräu Munich, the Philipp Mendelson department store Munich, Grathwohl Zigaretten München (around 1920), Franz Kathreiner's successor Munich or E. Feuchtwanger, Margarine-Werke Munich.

After he had won one of the four first prizes in the corresponding competition, Glass delivered drafts for some values ​​of the so-called farewell series, the last stamp issue of the Bavarian Post from April 1, 1920. In 1921 he designed paper money vouchers for the city of Kahla .

Works (paintings, graphics, illustrations: selection)

  • The opera , gouache / old house music , gouache on paper, poster design for the XIII. German National Singers Festival, Munich 1912: Munich, Municipal Gallery.
  • August / bath gondola / Quellensee , color drawings, oil pastels: Munich Annual Exhibition 1919, royal Glass Palace (Secession), No. 1427-29...
  • Spring nymph , oil painting; Prater / ice skating / opium , etchings: Munich Art Exhibition 1923, Glaspalast (Free Art Exhibition), No. 2487–90.
  • Text illustrations for puppet theater by Carl Niessen :, in: Velhagen & Klasings MONTHS, JG 42, 1927/28, Vol. 1, p. 29 and following.
  • Family concert , oil painting, 1941 (art trade 2000).
  • Portrait of a young girl with flowers , oil on panel, 1942 (art trade).
  • Still life - flowers in a vase and a plate on a table , 1944 (Kunsthandel 2010).
  • Still life with flowers in a Chinese vase , 1946 (art trade).

Fonts

Franz Paul Glass: Typographic ornaments (1) for the type foundry Gentzsch & Heyse, 1912
Franz Paul Glass: Typographic ornaments (2) for the type foundry Gentzsch & Heyse, 1912

Glass designed typographic ornaments as well as several fonts named after him that are still in use today.

  • 1912: Glass antiqua, Glass Antiqua bold
  • 1913: Glass italic, Glass antiqua semi-bold, Glass antiqua hatched

literature

  • Archives for the book trade. Volume 52, Issue 7/8 (July – August) 1915 (Fig. 38, Löwenbräu Werbung on p. 237 Textarchiv - Internet Archive Text p. 243).
  • Dressler's art manual 1921 and 1930.
  • Willy Burger: Glass, Paul . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 240 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Wilhelm Eeckbaum: Franz Paul Glass. A Munich commercial artist. In: Usage graphics. Monthly to promote artistic advertising. Vol. 5, No. 11, 1928, pp. 17-29 ( digitized version ).
  • Glass, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 256 .
  • Dieter Emil Sdun: Pumpkin Moon & pas-des-deux. Leaflet in hand-set glass antiqua; three-colored woodcut by DE Sun. Hemlock press, Dreieich 1989.
  • Eva Anwander-Heisse: Stained Glass in Munich in the 19th Century. Dissertation University of Munich 1992, p. XV; Cat.-No. 19.164 and 11.1.
  • Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. Volume 5: Achmann – Kursell. Bruckmann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7654-1633-9 , p. (Fig.).
  • Glaß (Glass), Franz Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 46.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 401–405 (Fig.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1897/98.
  2. ↑ To the new Bavarian postage stamps. In: Alexander Koch (Hrsg.): German art and decoration. Illustrated monthly books. Volume 44, April-September 1920, p. 84.
  3. ^ A b Franz Paul Glass in the Klingspor Museum. (PDF; 45 kB) Accessed March 12, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Glass, Franz Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist, painter, illustrator and type designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1964
Place of death Munich