Hans Bohn

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Hans Bohn (born December 23, 1891 in Oberlahnstein ; † May 10, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German typographer , graphic artist and teacher .

life and work

Bohn grew up in Bonn. He studied at the Technische Lehranstalten Offenbach (today HfG Offenbach ) and was a student of Rudolf Koch and Franz Franke. Until his military service, he was employed by Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin from 1913 to 1914 . In 1919 he married Helene Bohn (* 1891), a Jew who was also a painter and graphic artist. In 1921 a son (baptized as a Protestant) was born.

From 1919 to 1930 Bohn worked for the Klingspor Brothers in Offenbach as a typeface designer and graphic artist, then he was a freelance graphic artist until 1944 and worked for Ludwig & Mayer and D. Stempel AG . In 1937 he was banned from working by the Chamber of Culture because of his marriage to a Jew. His wife was deported to the Auschwitz extermination and concentration camp , where she died. After military service, he taught as a professor at the Offenbach Werkkunstschule (today HfG Offenbach) from 1946 to 1956. Bohn designed books and book covers for numerous German publishers, including Rowohlt (Hamburg), Schneekluth (Darmstadt), Ullstein (Berlin) and Fischer (Frankfurt am Main).

Honors

Fonts

  • Orplid. 1929 (Klingspor Brothers, Offenbach am Main)
  • Mondial. 1936–39 (D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Allegro. 1937 (Ludwig & Mayer, Offenbach am Main)
  • Artist cursive. 1957 (D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Bohn script. 1974 (Bertold AG, Frankfurt am Main)

Works

  • Hans Bohn: The Orplid ABC . (Orplid Books No. 17), Axel Juncker Verlag, Berlin 1916.

literature

  • Walter Schürmeyer: German book artist and commercial artist of the present: Hans Bohn. In: Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics. 63, 1926, pp. 481-504.
  • Heinrich Jost: The type and book artist Hans Bohn, Frankfurt am Main. In: Usage graphics. 18. 1941, no. 4, pp. 13-24.
  • GK Schauer: German book art, 1890 to 1960. Maximilian Society, 1963, p. 252.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on Feb. 22, 2020
  2. ↑ Database of the bearers of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Bohn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer, graphic artist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberlahnstein
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1980
Place of death Frankfurt am Main