Heinz Schwabe

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Heinz Schwabe (born March 25, 1910 in Schönsee , West Prussia , † December 17, 1988 in Munich ) was a German draftsman and graphic artist .

Live and act

Striking data from his curriculum vitae are included under the heading A New Newspaper Head in the first edition of the CDU daily newspaper Neue Zeit , which appeared in Berlin for the first time on July 22, 1945 and which he designed in large letters .

His professional development began in a Berlin printing company and his field of activity as a young artist was in newspaper publishers in the former capital of the Reich. B. in Verlag Scherl Berlin, and industrial companies. Schwabe received valuable suggestions for his artistic work during a one-year stay in Sweden before 1945, especially in Stockholm . Even before 1939, Schwabe was working as a freelance commercial artist, although he was self-taught.

In July 1945, Heinz Schwabe prepared an exhibition of graphics, plastic and paintings on works by Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer and Hermann Max Pechstein as well as other artists outlawed during the Nazi era, such as B. Max Kaus . Egon Bahr - at that time a journalist for the Berliner Zeitung  - named as one of the exhibition's goals "to teach the public taste again". The documentary filmmaker and art historian Hans Cürlis captured the motif in the picture, as the painter Hofer deepened in conversation with the graphic artist Schwabe, director of the exhibition in the Berlin House of the Chamber of Artists at Schlüterstrasse 46. In 1946/1947 he was teaching commercial art at the newly founded art college in Berlin-Weißensee . In 1949, Heinz Schwabe moved to Düsseldorf . There he founded the company Heinz Schwabe GmbH together with the graphic artist Adolf-Ernst Wuttke, who had moved from Berlin. Both graphic designers contributed their own designs to the eighth edition of the 1957 charity stamp series Helfer der Menschheit , which was dedicated to mining that year. Schwabe had already gained experience in the design of postage stamps in 1945, when he and the graphic artist Goldammer designed the Berlin Bear stamp set as a heraldic animal and symbol of peaceful reconstruction for the Oberpostdirektion (OPD) Berlin . The bears and oaks stamps were valid from August 3, 1945 to October 31, 1946 both in the four-sector city of Berlin under Allied occupation and in the state of Brandenburg ( OPD Potsdam ) in the Soviet Zone . For the Christmas edition of the Neue Zeit newspaper on December 24, 1945 , Heinz Schwabe made a pen drawing using a woodcut technique.

Schwabe lived in Munich at the end of the 1970s.

Web links

View of the 6-Pfennig Berlin Bear postage stamp with a construction shovel , designed by Heinz Schwabe in 1945
  • Free digital archive of the Berlin edition 1945, July 22, 1994, in the GDR press portal of the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library, free of charge for readers of the State Library or after online registration

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neue Zeit , July 22, 1945, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Schwabe, Heinz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Teil 1, p. 2795. "Nutzgraphiker" (The address book was published by Scherl; the address editor was hardly influenced by a young employee, but evaluated official registries.).
  3. ↑ Spelling also Carl Hofer
  4. ^ E. Bahr: Preview of the first exhibition of the Chamber of Artists . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 20, 1945, p. 4
  5. ↑ Neue Zeit , July 31, 1945, p. 2, Zefys
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , July 28, 1945, p. 4, Zefys
  7. ^ A b Brewster S. Chamberlin: Culture on Trümmern: Berlin reports of the American Control Sect. July – December 1945 (=  series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . No. 39 ). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01918-5 , pp. 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Biography short résumé (English)
  9. ^ Eberhard Hölscher : Heinz Schwabe, Düsseldorf . In: Nutzgraphik (International Advertising Art) , December 1956, pp. 34–43.
  10. ↑ Heinz Schwabe created the postage stamps with the values ​​6, 12, 20 Pfennig of the postage stamp issues for Berlin and Brandenburg (SBZ) according to the report on the reintroduction of postal traffic . In: Neue Zeit , August 7, 1945, p. 4
  11. ^ Peter Fischer: Europe's first postage stamps. A historical foray into philately. Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 978-3-87091-023-5 , p. 16.
  12. ↑ Mary and Joseph and the Christ child in the manger. Caption: Original drawing for the Neue Zeit by Heinz Schwabe , edition of December 24, 1945, p. 1, Zefys and explanation of manufacturing technology p. 4 Zefys
personal data
SURNAME Schwabe, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönsee , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1988
Place of death Munich