Gerd Hartung
Gerd Hartung (* 1913 in Berlin ; † 2003 ibid) was a German fashion designer and university professor.
Life
Gerd Hartung was born in a strict Prussian family in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, in the upper-class Uhlandstrasse on the corner of Kurfürstendamm in November 1913. He later reported that the upper-class Kurfürstendamm had shaped him a lot and led him to "illustrate high society". His ability to observe and the attention to detail in people would define his future career.
After first drawing lessons in 1930, Hartung attended the illustration and fashion class of the Reimann School from 1931 to 1933 . From 1934 the first publications appeared in Die Dame , Die Mode von Morgen , die neue linie , Beyers Modführer , Beyers Mode für alle , Vereinigte Textil Zeitung and International Textiles . Initially, Hartung drew in the linear style of Art Deco. Over time, he increasingly developed a free drawing style and used a variety of painterly and creative means. His faces are individual, self-confident and expressive. The drawings in ink, chalk, pastel, and watercolor served as inspiration for the manufacturer, later for the lessons, as a theater sketch.
From 1946 Hartung sketched and reported for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . In addition, he was editor and employee of the magazines Sie, Die Mode, Chic, textil-zeitung, Textil-Wirtschaft, Film und Frau, Constanze, Brigitte . From 1958 to 1963 Hartung was significantly involved in the design of collection catalogs for top-textile-magazin and Trevira International.
Hartung worked as a teacher at the Lette-Verein from 1983 and as a university lecturer at the HdK Berlin from 1986 with considerable popularity. In 1989, Professor Gerd Hartung received the Berlin fashion journalists' award Die Goldene Nase .
The book "Linienspiele" published in 1991 pays homage to the fashion city of Berlin and is a documentation of his own work. In 1979 he took part in the exhibition of Berlin Fashion Draftsmen in the Lette-Verein, in 2004 an exhibition of his drawings and costume collection took place in Berlin's Ephraimpalais .
Prof. Gerd Hartung died at the age of almost 90 in the area that had shaped him, on Kurfürstendamm, where he lived in house number 97 for fifty years in a 120 m² apartment including a studio he designed himself. The work and copyright of Gerd Hartung is represented by the agency akg-images.
literature
- Line games: 70 years of fashion in Berlin / with pen and pencil loose spring observed by Gerd Hartung u. Cordula Moritz. - Berlin: Ed. q, 1991
- Flyer for the exhibition in the Ephraimpalais. - Berlin, 2004
- Adelheid Rasche: "Sixties Fashion: Fashion Photography & Illustration" , exhibition catalog
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartung, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2003 |
| Place of death | Berlin |