Hans Günther Reinstein
Hans Günther Reinstein (born June 25, 1880 in Plauen ; † 1938 or later) was a German artist, designer, and advertising and poster artist. He became internationally known for his cardboard furniture, for which a patent was pending .
Life
Hans Günther Reinstein was born in Plauen in the early days of the German Empire as the son of the Protestant high school teacher Herrmann Reinstein and his wife Anna, née Trebsdorf.
After being in Darmstadt at least temporarily, on the edge of the local colony of artists appeared on the scene, he most recently worked in his Darmstadt studio in the Bare Street 4th
In the summer of 1902 Reinstein founded the artist group Vereinigte Kunstgewerbler Darmstadt , together with the architect Alfred Koch and the sculptor CF Meier, both of whom had also been students of Peter Behrens , which, for example, according to the headstamp, produced the coffee service with catalog number 242 for the Munich porcelain factory Rosenthal designed.
On August 16, 1904, he went on a journey, married his wife Marie Elisabeth Kleinsteuber the following year and possibly lived in Hanover from 1905 , but was no longer seen in Darmstadt.
In 1908 Reinstein designed an armchair made of corrugated cardboard, plywood and bentwood, which in the same year was either manufactured by the company Vereinigte Möbelfabriken Germania based in Bad Lauterberg or, from 1911, by the Press-Stoff-Möbel-Gesellschaft, which produces in Vienna .
Hans Günther Reinstein moved from Hanover to Berlin on March 31, 1938 - the date of his death could no longer be determined, at least in the early 1980s.
Works (selection)
Posters
- around 1928 to 1930: Advertising graphics together with the photographer Erna von Meyer (* 1889 in Tilsit; † 1951 in Hanover) for Edler & Krische in Hanover and Berlin and their EKAHA brand:
- “Why did he torment his brain? Because he lacks the notebook "
- "As far as we know, the smallest wave transmitter, that is the EKAHA calendar"
drawings
- Book design for the festschrift to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the porcelain factory Ph. Rosenthal & Co. Aktiengesellschaft Selb und Kronach. 1880 - 1905 , ed. from the porcelain factory Ph. Rosenthal and Co., Munich: Heller, 1905
- Design of the book decoration for Fritz Stadelmann (arrangement): Hanover. Die Großstadt im Grünen , art supplement based on original drawings by Georg Tronnier and H. Flecke, published in agreement with the City of Hanover. from Verkehrs-Verein Hannover eV, Hanover: Schmorl & von Seefeld successors, 1927
- Imprinted drawings for Melchior Wierz, Gerhard Brandstäter (arrangement): The iron room stove. Manual for modern heating management in house heating. Edited by the Association of German Iron Furnace Manufacturers. V., Thermal Engineering Department, 119 pages, Munich; Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928
Fonts
- School and practice in the arts and crafts , in: Kunstgewerbeblatt . Organ of the arts and crafts associations in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe IB, Königsberg in Prussia, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Pforzheim and Stuttgart; Leipzig: Seemann Verlag, new series 27 (1916), p. 46ff .; Digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library
literature
- Graham Dry: Hans Günther Reinstein and his "Cardboard Furniture" , in: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine , Vol. 22, Darmstadt: E. Roether, 1982 pp. 131-135; Preview over google books
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Graham Dry : Hans Günther Reinstein and his "Furniture made of Cardboard" , in: Art in Hessen and on the Middle Rhine , Vol. 22, Darmstadt: E. Roether, 1982 pp. 131–135; Preview over google books
- ↑ a b c Sally Schöne: Advertising advisor , publication accompanying the exhibition advertising art from Hanover. From Leibniz biscuit to Pelikano in the August Kestner Museum from September 15, 2016 to January 29, 2017, publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Der Oberbürgermeister, Museum für Kulturgeschichte, Hannover: Museum August Kestner, 2016, ISBN 978-3-924029-57 -9 , p. 41f.
- ↑ The Inland Printer / American Lithographer , Vol. 45, Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company, 1910, p. 753; Preview over google books
- ^ Karl H. Bröhan, Dieter Högermann, Reto Niggl: Porzellan , Volume 2, Bröhan Museum, 1996, p. 268; Preview over google books
- ↑ Susanne Weiß: Art + Technology = Design? Materials and motifs of aviation in modern times (= studies on art , vol. 17), Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20495-2 , p. 163; Preview over google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinstein, Hans Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist, designer, commercial artist and poster artist as well as inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1938 |