Georg Alexander Mathéy

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Postage stamp from the Reichspost 1919
Postage stamp of the Federal Post Office 1951

Georg Alexander Mathéy (born September 13, 1884 in Sibiu , Transylvania , † January 1, 1968 in Buchendorf ) was a German graphic artist and designer.

Life

After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest , later painting, book art and graphics at the State School of Applied Arts in Berlin , where he became a master student of the well-known book and type artist ER Weiss. From 1916 to 1919 he was a teacher at this institution at the instigation of the architect Bruno Paul . In 1920 he was appointed by Walter Tiemann as head of the workshops for book and lithography at the State Academy for the graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig, where he worked until 1928. Between 1929 and 1940 he lived in Greece, then returned to Berlin as a freelance artist. In 1953 he took over the management of the newly founded Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main , which was dedicated to book art. Mathéy died in 1968.

As early as 1919 he designed the first postage stamps for the Deutsche Reichspost, in 1951 he was responsible for the design of the legendary post horn set . The porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal brought 1,928 MATHEYS Coffee Service 760 out with trendsetting simple shapes and decor. In 1936 Mathéy designed four large paintings for an exhibition in the Pergamon Museum on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Berlin; two of these paintings with motifs from ancient Greek sites later burned in his Berlin workshop, the other two were bought by the Reich Ministry of Aviation, their whereabouts today are unknown. Mathéy made a name for himself primarily with his book design work.

Mathéy married Countess Ragnhild von Trampe in Berlin in 1919, and their son Ragnar was born in 1920. In 1926 he married the Greek pianist Polyxene Roussopoulos, their son Alexandros was born in 1937. In his third marriage in 1945 he finally married Irmgard Bruno, b. Hespers, from whom he had another son in 1946 (Gregor Konstantin, called Kosta, professor for urban development in Hamburg and Berlin).

Honors

literature

  • Max Osborn : Georg A. Mathéy, Young Art Series, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig; Berlin 1929
  • Georg A. Mathéy / Irmgard von Dreyse (eds.): Georg A. Mathéy, book art and graphics, Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach 1965
  • Wolfgang Maaßen: The Posthorn Series 1951/52, Phil * Creativ Verlag, Schwalmtal 2001, ISBN 3932198417

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Struss: Rosenthal. Service, figures, ornamental and art objects , Battenberg, Augsburg 1995, p. 90. With illustration.
  2. ↑ https://www.hcu-hamburg.de/master/reap/academic-staff/kosta-mathey/ [11.05.2017]
  3. ↑ cf. Who is who? (Degener, Wer ist's?) 12 (1955), p. 611
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Mathéy, Georg Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and stamp artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1968
Place of death Buchendorf , now Gauting