Gerhard Voigt (artist)

Gerhard Voigt (left) with Horst Weiß (center) and Lea Grundig at the VII Congress of the VBK (1974)

Gerhard Voigt (born March 7, 1926 in Halle (Saale) ; † August 13, 2005 there ) was a German graphic artist . He was Vice President of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Life

Voigt passed his Abitur in Berlin in 1944 and completed an apprenticeship as a sign painter in 1945/1946. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the art school and in the workshops of the city of Halle with Walter Funkat . From 1946 to 1949 he studied at the College of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein . Voigt joined the NDPD in 1948 . Between 1949 and 1952 he headed the graphic studios of the traffic and advertising office in Halle (Saale). From 1952 to 1977 he was a freelance commercial artist in Halle (Saale). From 1968 he was Vice President of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

From 1977 he was department head and from 1978 to 1991 professor for commercial graphics at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale).

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Voigt designed numerous postage stamps for the German Post of the GDR as well as posters, signets and book covers.

Posters (selection)

• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1968)
• Lantern Festival (1969)
• Handel Festival of the GDR (1970, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1981)
• Solidarity (1974)
• Anti-imperialist Solidarity (1981)
• Our suggestion is: We are ready for dialogue for peace and disarmament (1981) - First prize in the UN international poster competition in preparation for the 2nd UN special conference on disarmament in May 1982

Stamps (selection)

Stamp	Occasion, motive	year
	1000 years Halle (Saale) : Hall servants in front of Giebichenstein Castle (10 Pf ) Chemists in front of Halle buildings, including the Red Tower and Francke Foundations (20 Pf.)	1961
	For world peace : Frédéric Joliot-Curie (20 Pf.) Bertha von Suttner (25 Pf.) Carl von Ossietzky (50 Pf.)	1964
	Silbermann organs:Silbermann organ, city church St. Georg in Rötha (10 Pf.) Silbermann organ , Freiberg Cathedral (20 Pf.) Silbermann organ, village church in Fraureuth (35 Pf.) Silbermann organ , Catholic court church in Dresden (50 Pf.)	1976
	Optical Museum of the Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena :Huntley microscope ; London , 1740 (20 lbs.) Magny microscope; Paris , 1751 (25 Pf.) Microscope by Giovanni Battista Amici ; Modena , 1845 (35 Pf.) Microscope from Carl Zeiss ; Jena, 1873 (70 Pf.)	1980

Awards

• Handel Prize of the Halle District (1962)
• Art Prize of the City of Halle (1969)
• Art Prize of the GDR (1971)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1976)
• National Prize of the GDR III. Art and literature class

literature

• Bernhard Nowak: Gerhard Voigt, appointment as a work order . In: Bildende Kunst (1968) 12, pp. 660–663.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 335.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 964.
• Voigt, Gerhard - On the death of the graphic artist from Halle (August 13, 2005) . In: Handel House Communications , 3 (2005), p. 32.

Exhibition catalogs

• Gerhard Voigt: posters, brochures, catalogs, brochures, book covers, advertisements, stamps, company logos, signets . Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 1976 (exhibition catalog Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle: October 15 - November 28, 1976; Museum Romanisches Haus, Bad Kösen: April 10 - June 26, 1977).
• Hans-Georg Sehrt (Ed.): Gerhard Voigt and pupils . Burg Giebichenstein, Halle (Saale) 1991. (Exhibition Gerhard Voigt and Schüler, Halle: January 4 - March 7, 1991)

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Voigt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files