Friedrich Heinrichsen

Friedrich Heinrichsen (born November 24, 1901 in Passau ; † November 14, 1980 in Traunstein ) was a German typographer , graphic artist and text poet .

He created numerous graphic and typographic works as well as a number of splendid tapestries as a representative of the Offenbach school . He designed the Heinrichsen Chancellery, which was lost in the war and has now been digitally reconstructed, which was exhibited in Boston, Paris and Edinburgh. As a typography teacher , he also developed the Gotenburg font and founded the “Hannoversche Schreibwerkstatt”.

Heinrichsen was close friends with the graphic artist and illustrator Fritz Kredel , with Karl Vollmer , the publisher Otto Weitbrecht , the composer Kurt Brüggemann and, after the war, the Lower Saxony regional bishop Johannes Lilje . He was a master student of Rudolf Koch and a long-time assistant in his master workshop in Offenbach am Main .

Life

Heinrichsen already dealt with typography in his childhood. His training took place from 1919 to 1922 at the Offenbach Technical College under Professor Enders and Rudolf Koch. During this time he developed numerous puppet theater pieces while studying. During the global economic crisis of 1922/23 he made his way by writing pedigrees for horses and breeding bulls, and in 1923 he also worked for Otto Weitbrecht in his Stuttgart publishing houses. In 1924 he became Rudolf Koch's first assistant in his master workshop. It was there that he became friends with Fritz Kredel, which led to numerous joint editions of books.

In 1925 Heinrichsen married the Millöcker granddaughter Marianne Saliger. The first child Anselm was born in 1926, and their son Felix in 1928. During this time he worked as a commercial artist for the publishing house Otto Weitbrecht and had teaching activities at the Hessian trade museum, in the arts and crafts school in Offenbach and in the international institute for handicrafts in Mainz.

The art collector Siegfried Guggenheim made several international exhibitions possible for him. As a result, he was offered a chair at the Hanover School of Applied Arts in 1929 . In the 1930s he taught there, was responsible for the entire writing area of ​​the school, he was also a teacher at the Technical University of Hanover and in the advertising school, and he was also active in the book printer association. Three more sons were born between 1933 and 1939. As a commercial artist, he designed documents, theater and opera posters, newspaper heads, documents for the Olympic Games, bells, etc. During the Second World War , he was a soldier. Almost all of his work was lost during the war. Friedrich Heinrichsen was not a supporter of the National Socialist regime. His best friend Fritz Kredel had to flee to America before the regime and became famous there. Friedrich Heinrichsen himself feared for the life of his wife, who was the second generation of Karl Millöcker's illegitimate relationship with a Jewish daughter of a Viennese citizen.

After the war, Heinrichsen was involved in the reconstruction of the state capital and the Werkkunstschule Hannover , organized the first Lutheran World Federation Conference and other important events and created numerous graphic and typographic works for industrial advertising (Bahlsen, Sprengel, Günther Wagner), publishers and churches. The church orders also included bell designs . Heinrichsen temporarily took over the provisional management of the Werkkunstschule. After the loss of his works in the war and the destruction of his house in Anderten near Hanover , his eldest son Anselm died in an accident. After his retirement in 1959, Heinrichsen moved to Bavaria near Burghausen. In 1960 he exhibited his work in Edinburgh ( Scotland ). After that the members of the Hanoverian writing workshop continued his work in northern Germany. He was still in close contact with artists, writers and composers, but as a Protestant in Catholic Upper Bavaria, he found it difficult to establish new creative relationships. But the collaboration with Kurt Brüggemann was all the more intense, which led to a dozen singing games for the Bavarian Radio Children's Choir.

In 1980 Heinrichsen died in Traunstein at the age of 78.

family

Heinrichsen was married to Marianne Saliger, a granddaughter of the composer Karl Millöcker . His grandchildren are the theater director and music teacher Doris Heinrichsen and the writer and interpreter of modern music composition Peter Heinrichsen.

Heinrichsen was the grandson of Wilhelm Heinrichsen , the founder of the Nuremberg pewter figure factory , which is continued today under the name Ernst Heinrichsen .

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artistic vita of Friedrich Heinrichsen:

• 1923–1924 Certificates (Passau Agricultural School), internship at Thienemann-Verlag Stuttgart. Beginning of decades of collaboration in the form of book layouts; Lithographed rubrics for the anniversary edition "The Saints and Her Fools", Steinkopf-Verlag , Stuttgart
• 1924–1929 First assistant to Rudolf Koch in his newly founded writing workshop in Offenbach. Teaching, cleaning work on Koch's designs. Freelance work in advertising (for the Otto Weitprechts publishing house) and the printing industry. Foundation stone documents for monasteries and churches, bell inscriptions, posters for the "Pressa", Cologne, delivery of the exhibition of the Association of German Book Artists in Leipzig, Secretary of the Association for Art Care Offenbach, wins Dr. Guggenheim as a patron. Exhibitions in Boston, Paris, Edinborough, teaching at the Hessisches Gewerbemuseum and at the international institute for handicrafts in Mainz.
• 1929 Appointment to the Hanover School of Applied Arts as a typography teacher (today's media design department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences )
• 1930–1931 design of Hoffmann's writing atlas, Stuttgart, exhibitions in Hanover, Berlin (with the Rudolf Blanckertz Writing Museum , Berlin)
• 1930 Atlas Roman , National Display Alphabet Co., Boston, font drawing
• 1931: Heinrichsen Chancellery ; JD Trennert , preliminary work and work drawing , was lost in the war, digitally reconstructed
• 1932–1934 Honorary certificates from the City of Hanover, collaboration on the "Lower Saxony Atlas", collaboration on the illustrated Lower Saxony map by Prof. Horrmeyer , design of the sundial in Hermann-Löns-Park , Hanover (drawing etched in brass), labeling of the Maschsee column , Hanover, exhibition structure State of Lower Saxony, certificates for the coffin Hermann Löns, city of Göttingen etc.
• 1935: Gotenburg A half bold , Gotenburg B half bold ; D. Stempel AG
• 1935–1938 Documents historical commission Hanover, State Library Lower Saxony, organizing committee of the Olympics, Technical University Hanover, seal, equipment for Wilhelm Busch Museum , Kästnergesellschaft, equipment cemetery chapel Bremerhaven, bell lettering Gethsemane community Hanover, advertising special edition Reemtsma for the Olympics, advertisements, advertising graphics Günther Wagner, Bahlsen, theater posters for opera and Volksbühne Hannover, children's book publication: "Der Kasperl comes", Atlantis-Verlag, Potsdam, drafts of newspaper heads for Hannoversche Blätter, Diepholzer Zeitung, church magazines and community papers, Marktredwitz, preparatory work on the large illustrated World map for Müller and Kiepenheuer "The distribution of goods in the world", foundation of the Hanoverian writing workshop based on the model of Rudolf Koch's Offenbach workshop

• 1936: Gotenburg A , Gotenburg B ; D. Stempel AG
• 1937: Gotenburg A bold , Gotenburg B bold ; D. Stempel AG

• 1941–1942 Graphic inventory of magnificent Hanover buildings, especially of the Leibniz House, artistic management of the Hanoverian cemeteries with the Hanoverian writing workshop
• 1942: Moguntia ; D. Stempel AG (unpublished)
• 1943 Loss of almost all originals and specimen copies due to the fire on the roof of the Werkkunstschule after a bomb attack.

• In 1946 after returning from captivity, participation in all planning committees of the city of Hanover and the regional church office, makeshift construction of the art school
• 1947–1951 co-founder of the ev.-luth. Newspaper "The Embassy", equipment and artistic management of the newspaper with a circulation of 200,000, work in the rebuilding and renovation of approx. 40 churches, chapels and prayer rooms, including the big bells of the market church in Hanover, documents for the city and church, seal experts of the regional church, participation in the reconstruction of the Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim and the castle church in Hanover, inscription of the side wings of the Cranach altar
• 1952–1958 Lettering of the Constructa exhibition in Hanover, school assignment for the construction of the first Hanover fair , service painting for Arzberg porcelain, foundation of the parament association in Marienwerder monastery, bell lettering on the Bishop's Church, Hanover, writing for the pommel of the tower church, equipment of the ev. Emergency Church in Linz, complete furnishings of the church in Bente, Hanover, two glass windows, wall decorations, antepedia, candlesticks, painting above the organ wall, work drawing for the writing on Kurt Schumacher's monumental stone, bell design in Marktredwitz, winged altar in the hall of the ev. Frauenwerk, design of the jewelry hymn book of the Hanoverian regional church, stained glass window St. Mary's Church in Lübeck , equipment cemetery chapel Dorfmark, advertisement for Sprengel, Bahlsen, Günther Wagner, publication of "Fonts for professional use", Curt R. Vincentz-Verlag, Hanover, theater posters Flensburg,
• 1959 End of the Hanoverian period, move to Wolkersdorf near Traunstein
• 1960 Exhibition: The National Library of Scotland, International Calligraphy and Lettering, Edinborough
• 1961–1973 12 Singspiele as lyricist with the composer Kurt Brüggemann for Bayerischer Rundfunk, collaboration at various museum institutions, tin figure design, certificate for the Institute of Auditors in Germany, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Deutsche Bank, collaboration on the textbook of the printing industry (twelve alphabets) , Tombstone designs
• 1974 "Life of a Type Artist", autobiography, self-published in Traunstein

In 1980, after the death of Friedrich Heinrichsen, all of his existing work with numerous magnificent tapestries - after two memorial exhibitions in Hildesheim and Traunstein - was transferred to the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Heinrichsen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Font samples as pdf (551 kB)