Gerd Fleischmann

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Gerd Fleischmann (born October 6, 1939 in Nuremberg ) is a German typographer .

Life

Gerd Fleischmann spent his childhood in Daberg near Furth im Wald (evacuation 1943), Roth near Nuremberg (1945–1947) and Nuremberg; High school, soap box race . He later said that if he hadn't become a typographer, he would have restored gardens in Italy. Gerd Fleischmann is married and has two children.

Act

Gerd Fleischmann studied from 1959 to 1964, first physics and mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , later life drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and from 1960 art education, handicrafts, painting and photography at the Berlin University of the Arts, among others with Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber, Fred Thieler , Willem Hölter, Walter Hess and Heinz Hajek-Halke ; later mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, among others with Karl Peter Grotemeyer . He was a trainee lawyer and later a teacher at grammar schools and elementary schools in Berlin. He later worked as an author, photographer and graphic designer, initially for Großgörschen 35 , the Academy of Arts, the New National Gallery and the State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage. 1970–1971 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Communication Planning, Bonn ('Lohmar Institute').

From 1971 to 2003, Fleischmann was a teacher in the field of design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the field of visual communication: typography / layout, design theory, language in visual communication (lecturer: Dr. Volker Struck), laws of visual perception.

Visiting professorships and teaching positions in Osnabrück, Dublin, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Hanoi, San José (Costa Rica), Weimar and Bozen, among others.

Highlights:

  • Irish Country Posters, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 1981
  • bauhaus. printed matter, typography, advertising, Düsseldorf 1984
  • Cologne under National Socialism , permanent exhibition in the Nazi Documentation Center , Cologne, 1992–1996
  • Max Bill: typography, advertising, book design. Exhibitions, publications, 1997
  • Carpe Diem! The illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher and person Hans (Giovanni) Grohé 1913–2001. Exhibition, publication. The full warmth of homophonic chords. Hans (Giovanni) Grohé as an artist, 2003
  • Stauffenberg Memorial, Stuttgart, with Kastner Pichler Architects, Cologne, 2006
  • Franz Rudolf Knubel: ... to the smallest group / ... with a chosen few. In memoriam Mildred Harnack-Fish. German Resistance Memorial Center, 2007
  • inrō - A Key to the World of Samurai. The Kress Collection / inrō - avain samuraiden aikaan. Kressin kokoelma, Vapriikki, Tampere, 2009-2010
  • “Always happy to be busy for you, ...” Pot & Sons memorial site - the furnace builders of Auschwitz, Erfurt. Outdoor exhibition, 2010, in collaboration with Kastner Pichler Architects, Cologne

Gerd Fleischmann is co-founder of Forum Typografie , together with Helmut Schmidt-Rhen , Hermann Schlieper, Erik Spiekermann and Hans Peter Willberg , designed on the sidelines of the legendary press conference of the context group in the summer of 1983 in Ireland, Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare, near Shannon Airport ; Founding member of the Society for the Promotion of the Art of Printing Leipzig e. V., which has taken over its collection of historical printing machines and poster fonts and given them to the Museum of Printing Art.

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personal data
SURNAME Fleischmann, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg