Friedrich Neugebauer

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Friedrich Neugebauer (born November 16, 1911 in Kojetín ; † August 3, 2005 in Bad Goisern ) was an Austrian graphic artist , calligrapher , typographer , graphic designer , book designer and teacher .

Neugebauer comes from the school of the Austrian script reformer Rudolf von Larisch and continued his idea of ​​maintaining artistic script in daily use. He died in 2005.

Live and act

After secondary school he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Opava and started 1930 training as font and book graphic artist at the School of Applied Arts in Wroclaw at Paul Hampel . From 1932 he continued his studies at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna under Rudolf von Larisch (writing), Oskar Strnad (architecture) and Wilhelm Müller-Hoffmann (painting).

From 1935 to 1939 he was a freelance graphic designer in Vienna. During this time he was assistant to Herta Larisch-Ramsauer at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and in 1937 he received the diploma d´honneur and a gold medal in the Illustrations illustrious Livres d´Art group at the World Exhibition in Paris .

From 1940 to 1944 he served in the war in Poland , France , Russia and Italy . From 1944 to 1947 he was a prisoner of war in Egypt . After his return he settled in Bad Goisern as a freelance graphic designer.

Font for Linz street signs

From 1949 to 1951 he was appointed as an honorary teacher at the art school in Linz, later at the Linz University of Design , where he then headed the master class for writing and applied graphics from 1951 to 1982, with which he designed the font for the black Linz street and house number signs, which was in use from 1951 to the mid-1990s and was also used in Gallneukirchen . After his retirement he worked as a freelance graphic designer in Bad Goisern.

In 1961 he was made professor hc . In 1963/64 he founded the Neugebauer Press publishing house and the House for Friends of Book Art and Graphics in Bad Goisern. In 1992 he was co-founder of the writing museum in Pettenbach .

Illustrators and authors discovered by Neugebauer include a. Helga Aichinger , Edda Reinl , Angelika Kaufmann , Ivan Gantschev , Helme Heine and Lisbeth Zwerger . The publisher continues to exist as an internationally active mini-edition (Michael Neugebauer Edition).

Exhibitions

Neugebauer took part in exhibitions in Austria, Germany, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Sweden, Poland and the USA. In 2011, on his 100th birthday, an exhibition of his work took place in the Bartlhaus Museum of Writing and Local History in Pettenbach.

Awards

  • Neugebauer was awarded gold medals for his graphic work in London, Paris, Trieste, Rome, Stockholm and Vienna. He received six state prizes in Austria, medals and diplomas at home and abroad for his publishing work.
  • In Bad Goisern, the Prof.-Friedrich-Neugebauer-Weg is named after him.
  • In 1974 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for fine arts and architecture for graphic and artistic design

Works

  • Calligraphy as an experience: building laws of writing. School of Writing, Salzburg, 1979, 1981, ISBN 9783851950694 , also in English, widely used in the Anglo-American language area
  • Numerous bibliophile editions in limited editions, artistically high-quality picture books that have received multiple awards.
  • Font of the black Linz street signs and house number signs , the use of which the city senate decided in 1951 and which was in use in Linz and Gallneukirchen in the 1990s. In 2015 the typeface was digitized by the German type designer Peter Wiegel as CAT Linz for computers.

literature

  • Gerald Cinamon: German graphic designers during the Hitler period, Biographical and bibliographical references , in: Webpräsenz von Germandesigners.net,
  • Harald Süß: A life in the service of the art of writing, Professor Friedrich Neugebauer and his work , in: Bund für deutsche Schrift und Sprach (Ed.), Die deutsche Schrift, Issue 4/1996, Volume 121, Pages 292-297 PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Special exhibition, 100th birthday of Prof. Friedrich Neugebauer, Pettenbach ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), requested on October 4, 2015
  2. ↑ Siegfried Pramesberger and Otto Wutzel: Goiserer Gemeindestraßen, village and hiking trails named after personalities, part 2 , queried on October 4, 2015
  3. ^ Friedrich Neugebauer, obituary, in: Buchmarkt.de website , accessed on October 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Typography.info
  5. ↑ CAT Linz , peter-wiegel.de
  6. ↑ CAT Linz font , dafont.com
  7. ↑ Friedrich Neugebauer, Fritz Neugebauer, in: Germandesigners.net website queried on October 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Neugebauer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian calligrapher, typographer, graphic artist, publisher, graphic designer, book designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kojetín
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2005
Place of death Bad Goisern