Hans Peter Hoch

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Hans Peter Hoch (born June 26, 1924 in Aarau , Switzerland ; † October 16, 2011 in Baltmannsweiler , Germany) was a graphic designer, typographer , photographer and representative of concrete painting .

Immediately after the end of the war, Hans Peter Hoch trained as a reprographic engineer and studied from 1946 to 1949 at the Higher Technical College for the Graphic Arts and the Amber School Sulz am Neckar in Stuttgart. During these years, HAP Grieshaber set up courses for typography and photography at the Bernstein School in order to pave the way for the students in practical professions.

Postage stamp, Hans Peter Hoch, 1990

In 1950, Hans Peter Hoch founded the office for visual communication in Stuttgart . “When I started my own business in the 1950s, I first decorated shop windows. Four pieces a month in a household goods store for about 120 marks. I was able to make a living from that back then - and learn a lot from it. Then I designed brochures for industrial companies. "

Highly designed exhibition catalogs, posters, signets, brochures, stamps and developed the corporate design of various museums and institutions such as: the Hegelhaus in Stuttgart, the Georg Elser Memorial in Königsbronn , the Bert Brecht House in Augsburg , the Martin Heidegger Museum in Meßkirch and the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa). In 1973 he won the Kiel Week poster competition . In 1983 he was responsible for the design and visualization of the special exhibitions and publications of the German Resistance Memorial Center in Berlin.

Postage stamp, Hans Peter Hoch, 1979

From 1977 to 1982 he painted - acrylic on canvas - different series of form-color-codings, combinations of several color and arrangement systems with overlays. These free, artistic works found their formal expression in a dynamic poster developed from geometric elements for the European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart. Hoch combined free artistic work with applied art. For him, as for Anton Stankowski , art and design formed a unit and were not polarizing points of view. In 1988 he was the third recipient of the Stankowski Foundation's award for his life's work in art and design .

Postage stamp, Hans Peter Hoch, 1994

As a stamp designer from 1979 to 1989 he coined the series of special postage stamps for sport with 20 designs for the Deutsche Bundespost .

Hans Peter Hoch was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale , the German Werkbund and the Association of Visual Artists. In 1985, the state of Baden-Württemberg awarded the honorary title of professor for his outstanding achievements in the field of art .

literature

  • HQ high quality . Magazine about designing, printing and the printed matter. Issue 3/1985, Verlag ggmbh, Heidelberg 1985, ISSN  0177-2945 .
  • Stankowski Foundation (ed.): Art + Design. Hans Peter Hoch. Laureate of the Stankowski Foundation 1988, Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-140-9 .
  • Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott, Bernard Stein: Typography. When, who, how. Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89508-473-5 .
  • Jens Müller (Ed.): Kiel Week. History of a design competition. Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-231-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Peter Hoch: Interview . In: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Ed.): HQ High Quality. Magazine about designing, printing and the printed matter . Issue 3/1985. ggmbh, Heidelberg 1985, p. 23 .
  2. ↑ Jens Müller (Ed.): Kiel Week. History of a design competition . 1st edition. tape 4 . Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-231-6 , p. 36 .
  3. ^ Stankowski Foundation (ed.): Art + Design. Hans Peter Hoch . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-140-9 , pp. 36 - 45 .
  4. ^ Hans Peter Hoch: Interview . In: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Ed.): HQ High Quality. Magazine about designing, printing and the printed matter . Issue 3/1985. ggmbh, Heidelberg 1985, p. 72 .
personal data
SURNAME Up, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graphic designer, typographer, photographer and representative of concrete painting
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2011
Place of death Baltmannsweiler , Germany