Hanns Schmid

Hanns Schmid (born May 26, 1958 ) is a Swiss graphic artist , photographer and publisher .

Life

Schmid's graphic work has received several international awards and his photographs have been shown and exhibited in various galleries, photo forums and at Art in 1984 and 1985. His posters, for which he has repeatedly received the reddot award, up to the Best of the Best , are represented in the collection of the new Pinakothek in Munich and in the ZHdK poster collection. As a publisher, he realized the much-acclaimed photo book about the Höflinger photographer dynasty in Basel. Further book projects followed, which were also awarded the reddot award for design.

In 2006 he started another activity as a filmmaker. In addition to an image film about the Rapperswil brickworks (Bern), which shows how the brick and roof tile are made from the pit to the finished product, he made a documentary film about the city of Sanaa in Yemen . Other film projects such as B. over the south of Tuscany followed. In addition to his active work as a graphic designer, he teaches communication at the IBZ technical college in Aarau.

From 1983 to 1986 Schmid headed the “Zur Stockeregg” photo gallery in Zurich . Under his leadership, the gallery developed into a small center for contemporary photography in Switzerland. In addition to exhibitions, he also gave lectures on the history of photography. As a curator, it was also important to him to bring lesser-known photographic talents to light and thus promote the understanding of photography in Switzerland. In 1984, for example, he organized an exhibition with pictures by the young landscape photographer Peter Gasser. His pictures were in the tradition of the American photographer Ansel Adams, a proponent of straight photography, which emphasized the qualities inherent in photography, such as depth of field, and thus consciously opposed the painterly claims of pictorialism. After that, UBS (formerly SBG) hired him as head of department for cultural events. During this time he realized the redesign of the “Great Photo Prize of Switzerland”, curated various exhibitions with the competition photographs and edited the exhibition catalog of the same name. He designed the “Pictorialism in Photography” exhibition for Credit Suisse and edited the accompanying photo book of the same name.

Before, during and after his time as a curator at the “Zur Stockeregg” gallery in Zurich, Schmid built up his own extensive photo collection, which he donated to the Swiss Photo Foundation in 2010. There it was recorded and published in the collective archive under Hanns Schmid's special collection.

Awards

2000 code bq 556-a | Poster design reddot award "High design quality"
2001 cp sphere | Poster campaign reddot award "high design quality"
2001 Art on Paper | Advertisement and poster reddot award "High design quality"
2002 Baltensweiler light | Advertisement and poster campaign reddot award "High design quality"
2002 How difficult the easy | Book reddot award «High design quality»
2005 SAAB | The red dot award poster series "Highest design quality" Best of the Best
2007 nomination of the "SAAB" poster series for the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany
2018 Basquiat, poster, reddot award «High design quality»
2019 Serge Vandercam, reddot award «High design quality»
2020 nomination poster "Serge Vandercam" German Design Award

Exhibitions

1981 Nikon Gallery, Zurich, still life
1982 Vevey Photo School, openings
1983 Nikon Gallery, Zurich, reportage photography
1984 Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich, color in photography
1984 Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Unfamiliar Reality
1984 Grashalme Gallery, Bochum, Moments
1984 Art '84, Basel, group exhibition
1985 Art '85, Basel, Visionen
1987 Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, reports, portraits, still lifes
2000 RedDot exhibition, Essen, code bq 556-a, poster
2001 RedDot exhibition, Essen, CP sphere, poster series
2001 RedDot exhibition, Essen, Art on Paper, poster series
2002 RedDot exhibition, Essen, Baltensweiler Licht, poster series
2002 RedDot exhibition, Essen, How heavy the light is, book
2005 RedDot exhibition, Essen, SAAB, poster series
2006 Design Prize Germany poster series "SAAB", Berlin
2018 RedDot exhibition, Berlin, Basquiat, poster
2019 Federal Office of Culture, Bern: Most beautiful Swiss books; "Rost", "Graphic notes from the province, homage to Fritz Gottschalk", "Art Park Val di Sella"
2019 Helmhaus Zurich: Most beautiful Swiss books; "Rost", "Graphic notes from the province, homage to Fritz Gottschalk", "Art Park Val di Sella"
2019 RedDot exhibition, Berlin, Serge Vandercam
2020 Helmhaus Zurich: Most beautiful Swiss books; "Weissenhofsiedlung"
2020 Federal Office of Culture, Bern: Most beautiful Swiss books; "Weissenhofsiedlung"

Collections

Poster collection at the State Museum of Applied Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Poster collection, Museum of Design, Zurich
Photographic works are represented in the following collections:
Swiss Photo Foundation, Winterthur
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
Photoforum Pasquart, Biel
Graphics collection ZHdK, Zurich
Swiss National Library NL

literature

Lichtspiele, Basler Magazin, 1979 p. 4 and 5
Openings, Basler Magazin, 1981 pp. 4 and 5
Photographie 11/1984, Verlag Photographie Schaffhausen (ed.), Stilleben, pp. 76–88, text Jan Marek
Portfolio yearbook 1984, Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen (Ed.), Stilleben, pp. 25 to 35
Unfamiliar Reality, 1985, Nikon (Ed.), Text Jan Marek, pp. 10 to 21
Wonrevue 11/2001, B + L Verlags AG, Schlieren (ed.), Portrait, pp. 28–36
NZZ December 12, 2002, The common thread, How difficult things are, Urs Steiner
Schweizermonthshefte 8/2003, SMH Verlag, Zurich, What was Dada there for ?, typographic study on texts by Gianni Kuhn pp. 18 and 62–69
Raum + Wohnen 09/2003, Ätzen Verlag, Cham (ed.), Art and Design Factory, portrait, pp. 88–98
International Yearbook Communication Design reddot Award, AV Edition, Peter Zec (editor) 2000 page 65/2001 page 82, 83 and page 142, 143/2002 page 50, 51/2005 page 44 to 47/2018 page 366
Design Calendar North Rhine-Westphalia, AV Edition, Sabine Wöll (Ed.) 2001 p. 90/2002 p. 75
Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, German Design Council (Ed.), Birkhäuser, Verlag Basel, p. 147

Publishing activity

Images, The Photographs of Peter Gasser, Helmut Gernsheim, 1984
Pictorialism in Photography, Credit Suisse, 1985
Yosemite, Nikon, 1986
Basel Archive Höflinger, Bruno Thüring, Hanns Schmid, 1987
Abstractions, Victor Gianella, Helmut Gernsheim, 1988
Inner visions, Christian Lichtenberg, 1988
Landscapes, Lüscher + Leber, Bern, 1989
Swiss Grand Photo Prize, UBS, 1989
The photogram in the mirror image of the Avant Garde, Werner Jehle / Hanns Schmid, 1992
Morocco, Zagora, Sahara Hanns Schmid, 2001
How difficult is easy, Lilian Frei / Jan Morgenthaler, 2002
Body and Space, Susan Schmidt, 2003
Notebook: "On Sunshine and Other Times of the Day", 2004
Have you heard the silent night, Lizz Wright, 2004
The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, 2007
Canton of Aargau, Aargau State Chancellery, 2010
Schnottwil, Schnottwil community, 2011
Appearance pictures, 2012
Overview and Synopsis, 2013
Moments, Hanns Schmid, 2014
Le couvent de la Tourette, Le Corbusier, 2016
Caplutta Sogn Bendetetg / Brother Klaus Kapelle, Peter Zumthor, 2016
Therme Vals, Peter Zumthor, 2016
Palazzo Reale / Cappella Palatina, 2017
Matera, Pasolini's film city, 2018
Salt pans, Salt Series, 2018
Art Park Val di Sella, Land Art at is best, 2018
Work in Progress, Fritz Gottschalk, Hanns Schmid, 2018
Rust, 2018
Graphic notes from the provinces, homage to Fritz Gottschalk, 2018
Collieries and coal mines in the 19th and 20th centuries. Additional article Zeche Zollverein, Essen, 2018
Posterdesign + Photography, Corinne Gisel, 2018
The red thread in our life, 2019
Corbusier Villas, 2019
Whole: Not a whole, 2019
Photo letters, 2019
Banco: The great adobe mosques in Africa, 2019
Weissenhofsiedlung, 2019
Silent pictures, 2019
The Fragility of Everyday Life, 2019
Rainbow: clouds speak soft rain; Sun shines through him, 2019
Unlimited beginning - striding endlessness, 2019
Strange place for snow, 2019
The Insignia of Power, 2019
Stationing by, Jean-Pascal Imsand, Dieter Bachmann, 2019
Venice on tour: Sean Scully, Jannis Kounellis and Venice at is best, 2019
Roma locuta causa finita; 2020

Movies

Rapperswil brickworks, Bern, Gasser Ceramic, 2007, image film
Project Oak, City of Baden / Peterhans Schibli, documentation
Tuscany, portrait of the south of Tuscany, experimental film
Yemen, road movie about the country
Sana'a, Yemen, portrait of a city, documentary
Schnottwil, portrait of a village, image film / documentary film
Agathon, Bellach, corporate film
Le Couvent de La Tourette, Le Corbusier, documentation

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personal data
SURNAME	Schmid, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss graphic artist, photographer, publisher and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1958