Gerhard Bläser

Gerhard Bläser (born April 25, 1933 in Haldensleben ; † October 1, 2009 ) was a German graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

From 1952 Gerhard Bläser studied commercial graphics and illustration at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee under Werner Klemke , Theo Balden , Ernst Jadzewski and Arno Mohr . He completed his studies in 1957 and worked as a freelancer until 1979. He became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . He worked as an illustrator for several magazines. He created around 450 drawings for Eulenspiegel , book illustrations, television graphics and postage stamps. He has received the award for “ Most Beautiful Book ” several times . From 1979 to 1992 he taught commercial graphics at the now renamed Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, since 1985 as a professor in the commercial graphics department. From 1993 he worked as a freelancer again.

Works

Together with Klaus Hennig , Bläser created the stamp set “Thoroughbred meeting of the socialist countries”. In 1967 he received the “ Golden Postage Stamp ” award for the individual stamp “ Playing Yearling Stallions ”. From 1966 to 1975 he designed six small sheets of postage stamps with fairy tale motifs by the Brothers Grimm , specifically for the fairy tales Tischlein deck dich , König Drosselbart , Der Puss in Boots , Jorinde and Joringel , Little Brothers and Sisters and The Bremen Town Musicians (partly together with Klaus Hennig and his wife Erika Gläser ). In 1987 a single edition of the fairy tale The Sweet Bread was published .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berlin State Library: Children's and Young People's Literature Department. In: staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Kurt Schwaen Archive Berlin: Gerhard Bläser (1933 - 2009): Graphic artist and illustrator. In: www.kurtschwaen.de. Retrieved June 6, 2020 . 
3. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Bläser, Gerhard and Erika. In: bund-forum.de. December 6, 2014, accessed June 6, 2020 .