Hans Burkardt

Portrait (2011)

Hans Burkardt (born May 25, 1930 in Stuttgart ; † September 7, 2017 in Isernhagen ) was a German graphic designer , university professor and calligrapher .

Life

Hans Burkardt was the first of three children to be born to Karl and Katharina Burkardt, b. Schilger, born. From 1951 to 1956 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, where he took on a teaching position for the basics of design and typeface graphics, and in 1956 published typeface courses in book form and individual folders for typeface development with application examples at Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg. He worked as a freelance graphic designer. For the winter semester 1959/1960 he was appointed to the Werkkunstschule Hannover for the subjects of writing graphics and applied graphics. In addition to his university work, he was involved in the Lower Saxony and Bremen regional group of the German Werkbund , of which he was chairman from 1970 to 1975.

In 1968 Hans Burkardt became head of the graphic design department at the Werkkunstschule Hannover, which was transferred to the Hannover University of Applied Sciences in 1971 . He became department head, in 1973 he was appointed professor, from 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the art and design department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and developed concepts for integrating the design departments into the university sector. From 1981 to 1986 he was rector of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. When considering the position of the universities of applied sciences in the scientific community and their further development, he emphasized the connection between "practical creativity and theoretical foundation" (1986).

Hans Burkardt also realized this connection in his own work: he observed and analyzed the art tendencies of his time (“On the Principle of the Serial”, 2004) and he realized exhibitions independently or in collaboration with colleagues; Numerous institutions owe their visual appearance and logos to Hans Burkardt, which he designed alone or in collaboration with students. In addition, an extensive oeuvre of calligraphic works was created, which was made known in several exhibitions and publications.

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Awards

• 1996: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
• 2000: Honorary Senator of the Hanover University of Applied Sciences " http://www.fh-hannover.de/fileadmin/media/doc/pp/neu-Honorarprofessoren_2012.pdf "

Exhibitions of own calligraphic works

• 1984: “Alphabets and calligraphic sketches”, exhibition at the Klingspor Museum for International Writing, Offenbach am Main; Takeover of this exhibition by the University of Music and Theater, Hanover.
• 1990: Exhibition of calligraphic works with students at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence at Saarbrücken University.
• 2000: “Calligraphy” at the Chinese Center in Hanover.
• 2006: "Calligraphy" in the gallery of the University of Neubrandenburg
• 2014: "Calligraphy as a controlled chance" in the 'galerie villa sprengel', Hanover
• 2017: "Schriftenlese" (together with Andreas Spengler) in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library Hannover

Exhibitions realized by Hans Burkardt independently or in collaboration

• 1961: Participation in the exhibition of the Werkbund "Shaped Environment" in the orangery Hanover-Herrenhausen; Design of the catalog.
• 1963: Werkbund exhibition "Glass and Building" in collaboration with Stefan Schwerdtfeger in the Herrenhausen orangery; Concept and design of the catalog.
• 1965: Exhibition concepts and implementation in collaboration with Berthold Becker.
• 1966: Concept and design of the exhibition “300 Years of Herrenhausen” in collaboration with Stefan Schwerdtfeger; Design and realization of catalog and poster.
• Exhibition "Ornament without Ornament" in cooperation with the Zurich School of Applied Arts, in cooperation with Berthold Becker.
• 1970: Exhibition “Product Design and Graphic Design”; Presentation of study concepts and study results from the Werkkunstschule, in collaboration with Berthold Becker; this exhibition was also shown in Stockholm and Oslo.
• 1970–1975: Exhibitions by the Werkkunstschule and the Werkbund.
• 1984: “Standpunkt Kunst - Location Herrenhausen”; Exhibition in the Kunstverein Hannover and in the hall of the University of Applied Sciences; Introduction, catalog design, text contribution.
• 1991: "Timing 1791 - 1971 - 1991 - artist training in Hanover"; Conception, exhibition and catalog design with students and colleagues, text contribution.
• 1996–1998: “State estates and state parliaments” in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament; Design in collaboration with Berthold Becker and students

Working on the visual appearance of various facilities

• 1970: Design of the logo for the Hanover metropolitan area. Development and implementation of the information system and station design (with Klaus Scheelhase and Detlev Draser) for the Hanover subway.
• 1987: Logo, visual appearance, posters on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the University of Göttingen.
• 1987 and following: Calligraphies and logo designs for the German Society for Aesthetics, for the University of Hanover a. a.
• 1990: Logo designs for the European Center for Jewish Music (EZJM) together with students.
• 2006: Design of the memorial plaque “The victims of National Socialism among the parliamentarians from Lower Saxony” in the lobby of the Lower Saxony state parliament.
• 2007: Poster “100 Years of the Deutscher Werkbund”.
• Logo drafts for the state capital Hanover and the Hanover region

Fonts

• “Ravensburger Script Courses” in book form and individual folders, Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg, 1956: Roman capital script, uncial, semi-uncial, Carolingian minuscule, renaissance antiqua, classicistic antiqua, English cursive, Egyptienne, grotesque, texture, rotunda, Schwabacher, Fraktur - with writing instructions to the respective alphabets and digits
• "On the design of the font", in: Kaleidoskop 58/59, Ravensburg 1958, p. 46f.
• "Alphabets and Calligraphic Sketches". Reprint of the Klingspor Museum for International Writing, Offenbach am Main, 1984
• Alphabet templates and writing instructions for the Pelikan Calligraphy Pen
• “Practical creativity and theoretical foundation”, in: Rolf Hüper and Manfred Gahrens (eds.) “Fachhochschule im Wandel”, 2nd edition Hanover 1986, pp. 10-16
• "On the principle of serial", in: Sabine Meine (Ed.) "Series and System. Signatures of the 20th century. “Hannover 2004, pp. 134–152 (monographs from the Institute for Music Education Research at the Hanover University of Music and Drama.9)
• "Calligraphy - The Controlled Chance". Edited for the Hanoverian Bibliophile Evening by Hans-Peter Schramm in collaboration with Wolf-Rüdiger Maurer. Hanover 2012

literature

• Northwest Newspaper . January 12, 1977
• Graphic design training: can the discrepancy between theory and practice be reduced? In: prmagazin . 3/1983, pp. 38-42
• Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 30, 1984 and July 11, 1995

Web links

Commons : Hans Burkardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Burkardt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 23, 2017