Hans Leistikow

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Hans Leistikow (born May 4, 1892 in Elbing ; † March 22, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a graphic artist who worked on the New Frankfurt project from 1925 .

Life

Hans Leistikow was the nephew of the painter Walter Leistikow , Grete Leistikow his younger sister. He studied at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw . During his stay in Wroclaw, he often worked with architects on the design of interiors and the coloring of the buildings. 1922 first contact with Ernst May , who, as director of the Silesian homestead, hired Leistikow to color the settlements. He planned the glass windows for the chapel designed by Max Berg in the Oswitzer Friedhof in Breslau and designed the interior of the Mohrenapotheke on Blücherplatz (Salzring) in Breslau, which Rading had converted for the first time in 1925 , with Adolf Rading . Two years later they worked on the design of the Kriebel house. Leistikow's works showed the plastic diversity and inspiration of abstract painting.

Ernst May, meanwhile city planning officer in Frankfurt am Main, made Leistikow head of the city administration's graphic office from 1925 to 1930 and commissioned him to design all urban printed matter in the New Objectivity style.

Leistikow's Frankfurt city arms (abolished again by the National Socialists in 1936)

A well-known work is the Frankfurter Adler , a design of the Frankfurt city ​​arms from the 1920s that was much noticed in the time of the new Frankfurt , but at the same time controversial by traditionalists , which was abolished by the National Socialists in 1936.

From 1926 he worked with his sister Grete Leistikow on the layout and cover design for the magazine "das neue frankfurt". They also accepted orders together with the graphic artist and Städel professor Albert Windisch .

In 1927–28, Leistikow designed the “Siedlungstapeten” for the Marburg wallpaper factory on behalf of May; The Bauhaus followed this example in 1929 and brought its Bauhaus wallpapers onto the market.

Hans Leistikow developed a color concept for the Praunheim housing estate. The house walls facing the river valley were kept in white, while the walls facing the inner settlement area and the residential streets were painted in red and blue.

In 1930 Leistikow followed with his sister a. a. Ernst May to the Soviet Union. In 1937 the siblings were expelled as "undesirable foreigners" and returned to Germany. Leistikow worked as a painter and graphic artist in Berlin.

From 1947 to 1948 Leistikow was called back to Frankfurt as a city graphic artist.

After the Second World War, Leistikow designed the colorful glass windows in the vestibule of the administration building of the Federal Monopoly Administration for Spirits in Offenbach am Main . These buildings were constructed by the architect Adolf Bayer in 1953 and 1954. In Frankfurt am Main he was responsible for the altar wall and the choir windows of the Maria Hilf church in Frankfurter Gallus in 1955 and 1956. The windows of the All Saints Church in Frankfurt's Ostend were also designed by him in 1953. The new glazing of the Bartholomew's Cathedral from 1953 and the windows of the Westend Synagogue from 1950 also come from Leistikow . In both cases, he dispenses with figurative representations in the window design and assumes geometric patterns. The basic shape is the triangle. In the cathedral windows this is realized by diagonally divided squares and in the synagogue by the sole use of triangles. In 1955 he created a mosaic figure frieze for the Mannheim National Theater .

Leistikow was a co-founder of the " Kassel School " and from 1948 to 1959 head of the graphics class at the art academy in Kassel , today's Kassel art college .

Leistikow's grave is located in Frankfurt's southern cemetery .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Exemplary: Hans Leistikow. Kassel 1995.
  2. ↑ Friend or foe, the Bauhaus wallpaper. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 11, 2014 ; Retrieved July 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bauhaus-online.de
  3. ^ The New Frankfurt. Issue 7/8, 1928.
  4. ↑ praunheim may tour of the Ernst may society text of the tour (PDF).
  5. ↑ No off-the-shelf architecture. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung September 8, 2010, p. 47.

literature

  • Jörg Stürzebecher u. a .: Exemplary: Hans Leistikow. in project of the University of Kassel. Univ. Gesamtthoch., Department of Visual Communication, Kassel 1995, OCLC 75629223 .
  • Tobias Picard: Thinking through the client's head - The designer Hans Leistikow , in Archive for Frankfurt's History and Art, Volume 69 - Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th and 20th Centuries , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Susan R. Henderson: Building Culture: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926–1931. Peter Lang, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4539-0533-3 .
  • Rosemarie and Dieter Wesp: Hans and Grete - the Leistikow siblings as designers of the new Frankfurt . Exhibition brochure , Frankfurt 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Leistikow, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1962
Place of death Frankfurt am Main