Hansjörg Mayer

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Three works by Hansjörg Mayer in the shop window of the Munich “Baader Café” (2020)

Hansjörg Mayer (* 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German printer and publisher. Through his hand press prints and experimental typography, he is considered an important representative of concrete and experimental poetry. With his letter pictures he was also active as an artist.

biography

After traineeships in book printing companies in Switzerland and the USA, he started studying at the graphic design college. In the early 1960s he studied philosophy with Max Bense at the University of Stuttgart . Since 1962 he has been involved in hand press printing and experimental typography. In 1965 he became a lecturer at the Bath Academy of Art. Two years later, he finally moved to England and became a senior tutor at the Watford School of Art. From 1966 to 1968 he ran the Hansjörg Mayer gallery.

Edition Hansjörg Mayer

In 1964 he founded Edition Hansjörg Mayer. At the beginning he published both Bense and other representatives of Concrete Poetry. These include important portfolio works with Eugen Gomringer , Haraldo de Campos , Herman de Vries , Franz Mon , Helmut Heissenbüttel , Frieder Nake and others. He developed numerous typographic versions of texts by various authors. He has been playing with chance as a design method since 1961. He named the famous 26 futura prints from his series of publications that appeared in 1965 after his preferred typeface. In the same year he has his first work and publishing exhibition in Stuttgart. His second, comprehensive work and publishing exhibition took place in The Hague in 1968. In 1968 there is a collaboration with the Petersburg Press in London. Since the 1970s, Mayer has also devoted himself to ethnological topics and the like. a. he published numerous books on Tibet. Both areas, art and ethnology, are the mainstays of the publishing house to this day.

Collaboration with various artists

From the mid-1960s, Mayer collaborated with Dieter Roth, creating a new collaboration between publisher and artist in which both took high risks. Publications have been published that are works of art themselves and are considered to be groundbreaking for the genre of artist books. Roht's Collected Works were published in 25 volumes, special and luxury editions, graphics, films, records, posters, publisher directories and much more. Red is considered to be the most influential artist in his publishing house.

Mayer also published books on palindromes, the “Lackskins” and other groups of works for the Swiss André Thomkins. Emmett Williams' classic Anthology of Concrete Poetry is on the program alongside Richard Hamilton's catalogs of graphics, his Collected Words and the famous Polaroid Portraits . Numerous other books would not have been possible without Edition Hansjörg Mayer. These include works by the authors Mark Boyle, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, John Latham , Tom Phillips. Gundi Feyrer, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Haegue Yang belong to the young generation of artists at the publishing house.

Work and reception

With the choice of Futura as the typeface and the design of an idiosyncratic typographic program, Mayer succeeded in giving the specific literature yet another impetus. It has been significant for the history of the publishing house that he was not interested in the so-called but misunderstood bibliophile prints, in the use of typographical means to achieve more or mostly less significant effects in text reproduction, in what is known as but misunderstood "poetry the type case ”. His interest in a new typographical syntax, his involvement in a specific art and literature have shaped his publishing program from the beginning to be essentially international.

Publications of Edition Hansjörg Mayer (selection)

  • Diter Rot: The Blue Flood, 1967.
  • Emmet Williams: Sweethearts, 1967.
  • Herman de Vries: Wit weiss, 1967.
  • Robert Filliou: 14 chansons et 1 charade, 1968.
  • Magnús Pálsson : Dogbook, 1973.
  • Reinhard Döhl: From the Botnang Sudelhefte. A notebook, 1982.
  • Reinhard Döhl: Edepequ, 1967.
  • Ludwig Harig: The football game, 1967.
  • Franz Mon: only ever to use the alphabet, 1967.
  • 13 Visual Texts, 1964.
  • Concrete poetry international, 1965.
  • Concrete Poetry Britain Canada United States, 1966.
  • Hansjörg Mayer: alphabetenquadratbuch 1, 1966.
  • Klaus Burkhardt: Coldtypestructures, 1966.
  • Sigfrid Cremer: abfhilnouvxyz, 1966.
  • Wolfgang Schmidt: Series 19, 1967
  • Herman de Vries: Rational Structures, 1967
  • Reinhard Döhl, GC Kirchberger, Hansjörg Mayer: Typography 2 program, 1967.
  • Frieder Nake: Matrix multiplications, 1967.
  • Mary Vieira: Polyvolume interactions photoserigraphique, 1967.
  • Emmett Williams (Ed.): An Anthology of Concrete Poetry. In collaboration with Something Else Press New York, 1967.
  • 16 4 66. In collaboration with Edition Domberger, Stuttgart, 1966.
  • middle age, 1964.
  • Genesis: Monthly Calendar for Pregnant Women, 1965.
  • Holes and Tonsures, 1967.
  • Friedrich Sieber: Impulse Forms Pictures, 1965.
  • Peter Schmidt: Rotaprints 1, 1968.
  • Peter Schmidt: Electrostatic Portraits, 1968.
  • publikaties van de edition en work by hansjörg mayer / publications by edition and work by hansjörg mayer / publications by edition and works by hansjörg mayer, 1968.
  • Emmet Williams: The boy and the bird, 1969.
  • Andre Thomkins: Picture Puzzles, 1967.
  • Dieter Roth: Even more shit. A review, 1968.
  • Richard Hamilton: Prints. A complete catalog of graphic works 1939–83. [waddington graphics], 1984.
  • Julian Jacobs: The Nagas. Hill Peoples of Northeast India , 1990. Revised Edition 2012.
  • Dieter Roth: Collected Interviews, 2002.

Hansjörg Mayer's books in other publishers

  • Hansjörg Mayer: Typo Actions. Foreword: Reinhard Döhl. 500 copies numbered and signed. Folding book op Typosverlag Frankfurt / Main, 1967.
  • Hansjörg Mayer: Typo Actions 2nd folder, format A2, title page, introductory sheet and 13 sheets with 2 Typo Actions each, printed on 200 gram paper, 20 of which are signed and numbered. Edition of 200 copies, published by Print Gallery, Pieter Brattinga, Amsterdam, 1976, and 100 copies in A3 format printed on 300 g.

Exhibitions by the Hansjörg Mayer gallery

  • Klaus Burkhardt
  • Victor Vasarely
  • Sigfrid Cremer
  • 16 4 66th opening October 23, 1966.
  • Wolfgang Schmid: Series 19, 18 and 21, books 5, 6, 7. Opening on January 28, 1966. [the date corrected later in February 1967]
  • Herman de Vries: Random Objectivations. Books, graphics, objects. Opening September 29, 1967.
  • Peter Schmidt: painting, graphics and electronic music. Opening April 29, 1967.
  • Diter red: books, graphics, pictures, objects. Opening November 20, 1967.
  • Dorothy Jannone: Graphics, Pictures, People. Opening December 15, 1967.
  • Andre Thompkins [sic]: Pictures, graphics, signs. Opening January 19, 1968.
  • Reinhold Koehler: Decollage imprimé. Opening March 8, 1968.
  • G CKkirchberger: Folded Objects. Opening June 10, 1968.
  • Robert Filliou
  • Jim Dine, lithographs for Robert Kidd's stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's “the picture of dorian gray”, Allen Jones, “shoe box”. December 1968.
  • George Brecht: The book of the tumbler on fire. Opening March 29, 1969.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Hansjörg Mayer - typoems, study gallery , Stuttgart
  • 1966 Hansjörg Mayer, Reinhard Döhl, Edition and Gallery Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart
  • 1967 Hansjörg Mayer, Reinhard Döhl - Artypo, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven / Hansjörg Mayer, Reinhard Döhl - printed and letter pictures , Hofer Tage für neue Literatur, Hof
  • 1968 Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
  • 1970 Hansjörg Mayer - Klangteksten - concrete poetry - visual teksten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg; Liverpool; Oxford
  • 2006 Hansjörg Mayer - Zen Touch, Giti Nourbakhsch Gallery, Berlin
  • 2007 Christine Mayer Gallery, Munich
  • 2013 Artist, publisher, gallery owner - Hansjörg Mayer for the 70th. An exhibition in the graphic cabinet in Dortmund
  • 2017 Hansjörg Mayer: The Smell of Ink ZKM, Karlsruhe

Exhibition participation (selection)

  • 1967 texto letras imagenes, Institutos Alemanes en Espana, Madrid; Barcelona
  • 1968 Poetry to look at - examples of concrete and visual poetry, Hofer Tage für neue Literatur, Hof
  • 1969 painter poet - poet painter, department store arcade, courtyard
  • 1970 Books that you would otherwise not find, Konrad Wittwer bookstore, Stuttgart / "Text Letter Image", Helmhaus, Zurich
  • 1973 Cremer Collection - European Avant-garde 1950–1970, Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 1994 Cremer III Collection - Writing and Image, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 1999 painting, INIT-Kunsthalle, Berlin
  • 2001 The Museum of Our Desires, Museum Ludwig, Museums of the City of Cologne / "Sport in Contemporary Art", Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 2002 Inaugurazione, Trevi Flash Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Trevi
  • 2006 Artists In & Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto / Memento Mori - Dying and Death in Contemporary Art, Comme ci Comme ca II, Cologne
  • 2007 Artists In & Out of Cologne, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida

Literature (selection)

  • Eugen Gomringer (Ed.): Concrete poetry: German-speaking authors. Reclam, Stuttgart 1972, new edition 2001, ISBN 3-15-009350-3 .
  • Hansjörg Mayer - typoems. Study gallery, Stuttgart 1965 (catalog).
  • Hansjörg Mayer - Artypo. Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven 1967 (catalog).
  • publikaties van de edition hansjörg mayer en work by hansjörg mayer: uitgegeven as onderdeel van een tentoonstelling in het haags gemeentemuseum 2 oct. tm November 24th Stuttgart, 1968 (catalog).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cf. Eugen Gomringer (Ed.): Concrete poetry: German-speaking authors. Reclam, Stuttgart 1972. New edition 2001, p. 93.
  2. ^ Network Graphic Collections NRW (2013): artist, publisher, gallery owner - Hansjörg Mayer for the 70th. An exhibition in the graphics cabinet. URL: http://www.netzwerk-graphische-sammlungen.com/ausstellungen/?tx_wrmuseums_events%5Bevent%5D=149&tx_wrmuseums_events [as of January 6, 2013].
  3. ↑ Reinhard Döhl: Edition and Gallery Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart. URL: http://www.stuttgarter-schule.de/futura.htm [Status: January 6, 2013].
  4. ↑ Barbara Wien (2012): NOW - Edition Hansjörg Mayer. URL: http://www.barbarawien.de/gallery/27420121462012.html [Status: January 6, 2013]
  5. ↑ Press release (2012): NOW - Edition Hansjörg Mayer, London. URL: Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. [As of January 6, 2013]. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  6. ↑ Barbara Wien (2012): NOW - edition hansjörg mayer. URL: http://www.barbarawien.de/gallery/27420121462012.html [as of January 6, 2013].
  7. ↑ Reinhard Döhl [Stuttgart, September 1970]: About Hansjörg Mayer. URL: http://www.reinhard-doehl.de/hjmayer4.htm [Status: January 6, 2013].
  8. ^ With an additional chapter: Connecting to the Past by Marion Wettstein and Alban von Stockhausen.
  9. ^ Network Graphic Collections NRW (2013): artist, publisher, gallery owner - Hansjörg Mayer for the 70th. An exhibition in the graphics cabinet. URL: http://www.netzwerk-graphische-sammlungen.com/ausstellungen/?tx_wrmuseums_events%5Bevent%5D=149&tx_wrmuseums_events%5Baction%5D=show&tx_wrmuseums_events%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&cHash=f198f1f7df8ee January 6th: 2013 [6]
  10. ↑ ZKM, Karlsruhe URL: https://zkm.de/event/2017/04/hansjoerg-mayer-the-smell-of-ink [as of March 28, 2018].


personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart