Gotthard de Beauclair

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Gotthard de Beauclair (born July 24, 1907 in Ascona , † March 31, 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German publisher , book designer and poet .

Life

Gotthard de Beauclair, in Ascona (Ticino, Switzerland) as the first son of Alexander Wilhelm de Beauclair and Friederike de Beauclair born. Born in Krüger , he grew up with his younger brother Wilfried de Beauclair on Monte Verità . From 1913 to 1920 he attended the Italian-language school in Ascona. In 1920 the mother moved with the two children to Darmstadt , where the family came from.

From 1923 to 1925 Gotthard de Beauclair attended the Werkkunstschule Offenbach and then trained as a typesetter with Rudolf Koch in the Gebr. Klingspor type foundry (Offenbach). In 1928 he moved to Leipzig , where he first worked at the Haag-Drugulin Offizin . In 1933 he published his first volume as a poet. From 1928 he was manufacturer and artistic director at Insel-Verlag , where he was a close associate of Anton Kippenberg, initially looking after the Insel library until 1945 .

In 1946 de Beauclair went to West Germany, initially worked with Scherpe-Verlag (Krefeld) and in 1951 took over the artistic direction of the type foundry D. Stempel AG (Frankfurt am Main). He founded the Trajanus Press within the Stempel House . From 1951 to 1977 the famous press prints designed by de Beauclair were published . From 1952 to 1961 he was first artistic director, most recently publishing director, of Insel-Verlag in Wiesbaden (later Frankfurt), where he brought the “Insel style” to “new bloom”.

In 1962 he left the Insel-Verlag to found the Ars librorum publishing house . At that time he was also a freelancer at Propylaen-Verlag and the Gutenberg Book Guild (Frankfurt). In 1966 he founded Edition de Beauclair . As head of Ars librorum and Edition de Beauclair, he published numerous titles from world literature in carefully designed, illustrated bibliophile settings. Georg Ramseger describes him as the "unreached general director of the perfect book".

In 1972 he moved to Mandelieu in the south of France, where he concentrated on his work as a poet.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1961–62: Gotthard de Beauclair: Modern German Book Design . Traveling exhibition: London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki.
  • 1982: Gotthard de Beauclair and his artist friends . Klingspor Museum Offenbach.
  • 1996: Gotthard de Beauclair, book designer, poet, publisher . Siegburg City Museum, German Library Leipzig, Heidelberg University Library.
  • 2007: Gotthard de Beauclair. Book designer, poet, publisher . Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel .

Publications

Lyric work

  • Country . Giebichenstein Castle: Workshops of the City of Halle, 1933.
  • Orion or the awakening . Giebichenstein Castle: Workshops of the City of Halle, 1934.
  • The solar arc . Hamburg: Dulk, 1937.
  • Picture and in-picture . Dessau: Rauch, 1942.
  • The hidden salvation . Krefeld: Scherpe, 1946.
  • The rest of the oriole . Krefeld: Scherpe, 1948.
  • Reflecting on the stages of time . Heidelberg: Lambert Schneider, 1957.
  • Time, overtime . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1976.
  • Light gain . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1980.
  • Sang in the headwind . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1982.
  • Everything means beginning . Eisingen: Heiderhoff, 1987.
  • Odes to nameless . Eisingen: Heiderhoff, 1992.
  • Being here . Selected poems, ed. by Andreas Nentwich and Arnold Stadler. Siegburg: Rheinlandia, ISBN 978-3-931509-37-8

As a book designer and publisher (selection)

  • Letters from Frau Rat Goethe . Selected by Rudolf Bach. Frankfurt am Main: City Council, 1960. With Wolfgang Tiessen .
  • Aristophanes: The frogs. A comedy . Transferred from Johann Gustav Droysen. With 23 wood engravings by Imre Reiner. Frankfurt am Main: Trajanus Press, 1961.
  • Canticum canticorum. The Song of Songs . German version based on the original Hebrew text by Gotthard de Beauclair. With 30 lithographs by Gerhart Kraaz. Frankfurt: Ars librorum, 1962.
  • Speeches and parables of the Tschuang-Tse . Transferred from Martin Buber. With multi-colored etchings by Ferdinand Springer . Frankfurt am Main: Ars librorum, Edition de Beauclair series, 1970.

A list of works can be found in the titles from 1977 and 1996 mentioned under literature.

literature

  • Joseph A. Kruse (ed.): Gotthard de Beauclair. Poet, book artist, publisher . Heinrich Heine Institute, Düsseldorf 1977, (Contains articles on Gotthard de Beauclair's 70th birthday as well as catalog raisonné and bibliography 1951–1977, compiled by Wolfgang Tiessen).
  • Georg Kurt Schauer : "Design Director" Gotthard de Beauclair: active, creative lover. Ars librorum, Trajanus Press, Edition de Beauclair . In: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel 35, 1979, Bibliophilie Special Issue , pp. 16-17.
  • Siegfried Hagen: Speech on Gotthard de Beauclair . Uhu-Presse Heizmann, Merzhausen 1988, ISBN 3-921974-91-7 .
  • Rudolf Sühnel: From the painter's book to the poetic image: Gotthard de Beauclair's life's work . Manutius-Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-925678-38-7 .
  • Gert Fischer, Heinz Richter (ed.): Gotthard de Beauclair: book designer, poet, publisher. 1907-1992. Life and work . Rheinlandia, Siegburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-931509-09-5 . (Exhibition catalog, with numerous illustrations, autographs, biography and catalog raisonné, awarded by the Buchkunst Foundation as one of the most beautiful books in 1996).
  • Marion Janzin, Joachim Güntner: The book from the book. 5000 years of book history . 3. Edition. Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt, Hanover 2006, ISBN 3-89993-805-4 , pp. 437-438.
  • Jerry Kelly: Gotthard de Beauclair. Art and Literature through Typography and Design . With an Introduction by Hermann Zapf. The Typophiles, New York 2006 (catalog, exhibition Grolier Club, New York 2006, with reproductions of front pages and biographical notes).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Beckmann: A ship is coming. Insel-Verlag, an institution for beautiful books, is 100 years old . In: Die Welt , October 16, 1999, URL .
  2. ^ In: Gotthard de Beauclair. Book designer, poet, publisher . Siegburg: Rheinlandia, 1997, pp. 19-20.
personal data
SURNAME Beauclair, Gotthard de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, book designer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Ascona
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1992
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau