Frida Schoy

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Frida Schoy (born November 23, 1889 in Duisburg ; † August 31, 1962 in Essen ), b. Friederike Anna Elisabeth Ettwig , was a German bookbinder . She worked in Essen and was one of the most famous bookbinders of her time. Schoy maintained a "factual, strict style, always extremely precise in terms of craftsmanship".

Frida Schoy worked intermittently with Kurt Lewy and Elisabeth Treskow .

Life

Frida Schoy was trained as a bookbinder at the Essen School of Applied Arts from 1915 to 1917. Otto Dorfner was one of her teachers . Until the turn of the century, the bookbinding profession - like almost everyone else - was considered a male domain.

In 1920 Schoy completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in Düsseldorf . Later she was a Geselin for two years in the graphic institute of Friedrich Krupp AG , where she passed the master craftsman examination in 1924. That year she became a member of the German Werkbund (DWB). In it she was very committed to the role of women in the handicraft and the role of the handicraft itself. In 1925 she worked as an intern for six months at the technical college for commercial bookbinding. In November 1926 she founded her own workshop for bookbinding and leather work as a self-employed master craftsman on the Margarethenhöhe in Essen . In 1927 she and Elisabeth Treskow presented her own work in a joint exhibition at the European Applied Arts Exhibition in the Grassi Museum in Leipzig .

In the period after the Second World War she was head of the leather and paper work group at the Folkwang School in Essen and headed the bookbinding class from 1948 until she retired in 1955. She dealt with Eiermann's throws at the Darmstadt Conversation in 1952 and called for greater consideration of the craft in the conception of the German Werkbund and the re-establishment of a master's ring in the German Werkbund, as it had existed in the 1920s.

Among other things, Schoy created the cover of the City of Essen's Steel Book (1934) with Krupp steel covers and leather backs. and the bindings for the first copies of Hermann Schardt's Dance of Death (1943). Other works include a jewelry box that Margarethe Krupp received as a gift from the Margarethe Krupp Foundation in 1929, as well as a cover of a book with poems and fairy tale games by Anna Heinemann from 1932.

A photo portrait of Frida Schoy from the 1930s comes from Albert Renger-Patzsch , who worked at the Margarethenhöhe in Essen at the same time as Frida Schoy.

Frida Schoy was married to the orientalist and naturalist Carl Schoy .

Awards

Frida Schoy received a gold medal at the Triennale in Milan in 1951. In 1963 she was awarded the North Rhine-Westphalian State Prize for Crafts.

Publications

  • Doris Weber, Frida Schoy: The book cover in its time - style history of the book cover. Hettler, Stuttgart 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Exhibition of the city of Essen on 85 years of Essen steel book in the Rathaus Galerie in Essen, June 2019
  2. ^ Edith Diehl: Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique . Courier Corporation, November 7, 2013, ISBN 978-0-486-15614-9 , p. 146.
  3. ↑ MDE: Hand bindings at www.ulb.uni-muenster.de
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Tresckow to www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  5. ↑ Archives for bookbinding . W. Knapp., 1939, p. 22.
  6. ^ Diana Nägele, Binding Art That Enchants , Stuttgarter Nachrichten, January 25, 2014
  7. ↑ Caroline Spelsberg: Insights and Prospects: An Interdisciplinary Prelude . LIT Verlag Münster, 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12141-7 , p. 146.
  8. ^ A b Rudolf Vierhaus: Schlumberger - Thiersch . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 192.
  9. ↑ Christopher Oestereich: "Gute Form" in the reconstruction: on the history of product design in West Germany after 1945 . Lukas Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-931836-43-6 , p. 150.
  10. ↑ The historical “steel book” of the city of Essen on www.essen.de
  11. ^ Hans F. Massmann: Literature of the dances of death . Georg Olms Verlag, 1963, ISBN 978-3-487-40064-8 , p. 190.
  12. ↑ Renger-Patzsch's photo portrait at www.van-ham.com
  13. ^ Journal for book lovers . EA Seeman, 1933, p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Schoy, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ettwig, Frida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1962
Place of death eat