Gerhard Binder (graphic designer)

Gerhard Binder (born January 13, 1912 in Besigheim ; † December 1, 1997 ) was a German graphic artist in Heilbronn and co-founder of the Heilbronn Artists' Association.

Life

He came to Heilbronn shortly after his birth in 1913, where he attended the Realgymnasium (today's Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium Heilbronn ) and from 1927 completed an apprenticeship at Handelsbank Heilbronn . After ten years as an employee of the Handelsbank, most recently as its advertising manager, he was drafted into military service in 1940, from which he returned as a severely disabled person. In 1939 he married Hildegard Heller. In 1946/47, Binder attended the Free Academy in Stuttgart , after which he founded the V + B studio in Heilbronn with the painter and graphic artist Bruno Velten , which was continued as the Binder studio after Velten's death in 1967 . From 1963 to 1972 Binder was a member of the Heilbronn municipal council for the FDP . In 1980 he moved to Leingarten .

family

The Heilbronn painter Else Schwarz-Binder b. Binder (born September 30, 1914 in Heilbronn ; † September 26, 2000 ) was Binder's sister, who also exhibited in Paris in 1970 and whose Saturday gallery in Talheim itself is known in Ulm and in the Franconian region (" Mecca of art in the Unterländer") was.

Artistic creation

Binder has mainly created commercial graphics for industry, trade and transport associations, but has also received numerous public contracts. He was a member of the Heilbronn Artists' Association . His specialty was the creation of certificates. His works therefore include more than 100 honorary citizenship letters for southern German communities, but also the design of numerous chronicles, anniversary writings, posters, books of the dead, etc. As a restorer, he reconstructed the plaque on the Heilbronn town hall clock . He has designed wall designs for various schools such as the Fritz-Ulrich-Schule Grund- und Werkrealschule Böckingen , as well as glass windows such as the large-format glass window of the town hall of Beilstein showing the local coat of arms . His designs also include the tablet on the Heilbronn synagogue memorial stone . He designed a series of images lasting several years for Heilbronn's voice . There is a work by Binder in the Heilbronn City Museum . It is a motto in ink and watercolor and reads: "Please do not keep talking loudly, the man next to you also wants to study!"

Literary works

Happy Heilbronn , Team Luther Verlag, Neckarsulm, 1978

literature

AKL XI, 1995, p. 77

30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979 , pp. 38/39.
Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s , Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 153.

Individual evidence

↑ Date of birth and death according to the Heilbronn city archive , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-11119, entry on Gerhard Binder in the HEUSS database
↑ Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon: from the baroque to the present. Munich: Art and Antiques, 1986, ISBN 3-921811-36-8 , p. 23 [Beyer-Jatzlau - Bodamer]
^ Date of birth and death according to the Heilbronn City Archives, Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, signature ZS-11339, entry on Else Schwarz-Binder in the HEUSS database and after entry on Else Schwarz-Binder in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography
↑ 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979 , pp. 136/137.
↑ Kulturkatalog 1993 , Stadt Heilbronn 1992, p. 167.
^ Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s , Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 164.
^ Hanns Blaschek: Les arts en Éurope. Catalog 1970 , p. 18.
↑

“ Ulm artists in Heilbronn
At the invitation of the Saturday gallery Schwarz-Binder Heilbronn, 19 artists from Baden-Württemberg have exhibited works of fine art in the information center of the Heilbronn office building Seel ... The exhibition runs under the motto Art in the Office ... Among the exhibitors are three members of the Ulm Artists' Guild : Ruth Schwarz-Ehinger, Frank Hempel and Wolfgang Steiner ... "

- Ulm artist in Heilbronn . In: Südwest Presse . 1 October 1973 .
↑

"Pleasure in diversity, seriousness in striving for art, plus an apparently inexhaustible source from which ideas and activities as well as a strong will to perform, that's what distinguishes them and what the two Unterland artists Else Schwarz-Binder and Peter Friedel like It does what it means for artists and art lovers all over southern Germany: advocate for everything creative, open to all directions, eager to experiment, exuding a tolerant and open attitude ... This is where ideas ripen In the wine-growing community of Talheim, about ten kilometers south of Heilbronn, Else lives Schwarz-Binder and her husband built a spacious atrium house ... In the house of the native Heilbronn in Talheim, everyone who is interested in art is a welcome guest. And it was precisely this hospitality that laid the foundation for an event that has been an integral part of cultural life in and around Heilbronn for nine years: Else Schwarz-Binder's 'Saturday Gallery' ... she was able to win over artists from all over southern Germany ... her house is now For some it has become a ' Mecca ' of art life in the Unterland ... Not always the well-known … She has… recognized that it does not always have to be the well-known… what is able to delight the beholder's eye… What particularly fascinated her last year was the modern world of Technology ... The painter discovered the huge construction site of the Neckar community nuclear power plant in a former quarry between Neckarwestheim and Gemmrigheim (Ludwigsburg district) as a suitable object for her creative activity. From various perspectives, she captured the masses of concrete and steel with the carbon pencil on paper. These works by the artist also appeal to viewers who are not familiar with their previous work and are generally not very well versed in art. "

- bob: “Franconia today” introduces artists from the region: advocates for everything creative. Else Schwarz-Binder and Peter Friedl pull together in art . In: Hans P. Eppinger (Ed.): "Franconia today". Magazine of the Franconian region. Neckarland Hohenlohe Main-Tauber district . 4th year, no. 1 . Eppinger-Verlag, Schwäbisch Hall 1975, p. 18-20 .
↑ Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s , Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 152 [Fig. 194 Gerhard Binder, Sinnspruch o. J., Indian ink and watercolor, 38 × 97.5 cm, Städtische Museen Heilbronn].

personal data
SURNAME	Binder, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Besigheim
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1997

[1] Date of birth and death according to the Heilbronn city archive , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-11119, entry on Gerhard Binder in the HEUSS database

[2] Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon: from the baroque to the present. Munich: Art and Antiques, 1986, ISBN 3-921811-36-8 , p. 23 [Beyer-Jatzlau - Bodamer]

[3] Date of birth and death according to the Heilbronn City Archives, Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung, signature ZS-11339, entry on Else Schwarz-Binder in the HEUSS database and after entry on Else Schwarz-Binder in the personal database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography

[4] 30 years of the Heilbronn Artists' Association, summer exhibition 1979 , pp. 136/137.

[5] Kulturkatalog 1993 , Stadt Heilbronn 1992, p. 167.

[6] Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s , Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 164.

[7] Hanns Blaschek: Les arts en Éurope. Catalog 1970 , p. 18.

[8] 

“ Ulm artists in Heilbronn
At the invitation of the Saturday gallery Schwarz-Binder Heilbronn, 19 artists from Baden-Württemberg have exhibited works of fine art in the information center of the Heilbronn office building Seel ... The exhibition runs under the motto Art in the Office ... Among the exhibitors are three members of the Ulm Artists' Guild : Ruth Schwarz-Ehinger, Frank Hempel and Wolfgang Steiner ... "

- Ulm artist in Heilbronn . In: Südwest Presse . 1 October 1973 .

[9] 

"Pleasure in diversity, seriousness in striving for art, plus an apparently inexhaustible source from which ideas and activities as well as a strong will to perform, that's what distinguishes them and what the two Unterland artists Else Schwarz-Binder and Peter Friedel like It does what it means for artists and art lovers all over southern Germany: advocate for everything creative, open to all directions, eager to experiment, exuding a tolerant and open attitude ... This is where ideas ripen In the wine-growing community of Talheim, about ten kilometers south of Heilbronn, Else lives Schwarz-Binder and her husband built a spacious atrium house ... In the house of the native Heilbronn in Talheim, everyone who is interested in art is a welcome guest. And it was precisely this hospitality that laid the foundation for an event that has been an integral part of cultural life in and around Heilbronn for nine years: Else Schwarz-Binder's 'Saturday Gallery' ... she was able to win over artists from all over southern Germany ... her house is now For some it has become a ' Mecca ' of art life in the Unterland ... Not always the well-known … She has… recognized that it does not always have to be the well-known… what is able to delight the beholder's eye… What particularly fascinated her last year was the modern world of Technology ... The painter discovered the huge construction site of the Neckar community nuclear power plant in a former quarry between Neckarwestheim and Gemmrigheim (Ludwigsburg district) as a suitable object for her creative activity. From various perspectives, she captured the masses of concrete and steel with the carbon pencil on paper. These works by the artist also appeal to viewers who are not familiar with their previous work and are generally not very well versed in art. "

- bob: “Franconia today” introduces artists from the region: advocates for everything creative. Else Schwarz-Binder and Peter Friedl pull together in art . In: Hans P. Eppinger (Ed.): "Franconia today". Magazine of the Franconian region. Neckarland Hohenlohe Main-Tauber district . 4th year, no. 1 . Eppinger-Verlag, Schwäbisch Hall 1975, p. 18-20 .

[10] Andreas Pfeiffer (Ed.): Heilbronn and the art of the 50s , Städtische Museen Heilbronn 1993, p. 152 [Fig. 194 Gerhard Binder, Sinnspruch o. J., Indian ink and watercolor, 38 × 97.5 cm, Städtische Museen Heilbronn].