Günther Kieser

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Karl Georg Günther Kieser (born March 24, 1930 in Kronberg im Taunus ) is a German graphic designer and sculptor .

Since the 1960s he has been known for his poster design for the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt and his posters for events of the concert agency Lippmann + Rau and is considered one of the most important German designers of jazz and rock posters. He also worked for the jazz label Blue Note .

life and work

Kieser began training in 1944 at the Offenbach Master School of German Crafts, the forerunner of the Werkkunstschule, today's college of design . From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the Werkkunstschule. From 1949 he worked as a freelance graphic artist, for example for the Hessischer Rundfunk . In the late 1940s he met Horst Lippmann , for whom he designed posters and record covers for many years . Kieser attracted attention with poster campaigns on Dizzy Gillespie , Count Basie and the hot club and big band jazz advancing from Paris to Frankfurt.

From 1953 he worked for ten years in a studio community with Hans Michel in Offenbach, they drew together with Michel + Kieser . While Michel's works were mostly drawn from the connection between photography and linocut, Kieser brought more graphic qualities, which were due to the drawing and the collage, into the joint designs. In 1956 he became a member of the German Werkbund . In 1964, works by Michel + Kieser were shown in the graphics department at documenta III in Kassel . The poster subjects that were created in the course of the next few years, mostly captured photographically, combine striking designs with object-like arrangements in three-dimensional fantasy objects that the graphic artist had specially produced for his posters.

Kieser's work has been featured on posters, on programs and record covers, but also in the context of exhibitions, for example in the Frankfurt Museum of Arts and Crafts or the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . In 2010, his head figures were shown for the first time in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main .

Kieser is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). From 1981 to 1992 he was professor for visual communication at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . For his life's work he was awarded honorary membership of the German Designer Club in 2002.

Kieser, who has been widowed since 2016, is the father of two daughters and lives and works in Offenbach.

Postage stamps (Michel + Kieser)

literature

  • F. Mellinghoff (Ed.): The second face. Posters by Günther Kieser. Exhibition catalog, Mainz 1989
  • Contrasts - music posters by Günther Kieser and Niklaus Troxler . Exhibition catalog with 192 b / w illustrations of posters (1955–1993)
  • documenta III. International exhibition. Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics. Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts, Frankfurt am Main & Hessischer Rundfunk (ed.): Kieser, Plakate, Exchange. Mainz, Schmidt 1995, ISBN 3-87439-374-7
  • Zdzisław Schubert, Renata Janska (eds.): PERSONA 2002: Günther Kieser. Exhibition catalog of Galeria Sztuki Wozownia in Toruń , Poland, Toruń: Galeria Sztuki Wozownia, 2002, ISBN 83-915110-7-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhold Gries: Poster artist Günther Kieser is 90 years old. In: op-online.de. March 24, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Veronika Szeherova: View of the face. In: op-online.de. June 30, 2010, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DDC honorary members - 1993 to 2016. (PDF; 2MB) In: ddc.de. 2016, accessed March 24, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kieser, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kieser, Karl Georg Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronberg im Taunus