Hans Rudolf Bosshard

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Hans Rudolf Bosshard (born January 25, 1929 in Balm- Lottstetten ; legal resident in Wildberg , Zurich ) is a painter , typographer , graphic artist , wood cutter , book designer , author and teacher .

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Bosshard completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and trained as an apprentice trainer. As an autodidact , he taught typography for thirty years at various vocational schools and in the photography and graphics classes at the Zurich School of Applied Arts and general design at the Zurich Vocational School for Design . He was also head of the advanced training course for typographic design. His publications “Introduction to the Theory of Forms”, “Gestalt Laws”, “Proportion”, “Contrasts” and “Form and Color”, which were made in the 1970s, document his theories associated with teaching results.

Bosshard was a member of the international association of wood cutters and wood cutters Xylon . From 1967 to 1991 he worked for the Xylon editorial team and was responsible for the design of the magazine. In addition, he edited bibliophile books in his small publishing house, “Janus-Presse Zürich”, founded in 1956. Bosshard designed numerous books, exhibition catalogs and posters in the cultural field and worked as an editor of books and portfolios with original graphics as well as artist books.

Bosshard's later textbooks were “Technical basics for sentence production” (1980), “Mathematical basics for sentence production” (1985) and “Typography and font readability” (1996). Bosshard's Opus Magnum is “Der typografische Raster” (2000). The German-English as well as a Chinese edition contributed to the international success of the book.

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SURNAME Bosshard, Hans Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, graphic artist, wood cutter, author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Balm- Lottstetten