Herbert Post

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Herbert Max Otto Post (born January 13, 1903 in Mannheim ; † July 9, 1978 in Bayersoien ) was a German type artist , typographer and book designer .

Life

He grew up in a musical family that had a major influence on his childhood and artistic development. He wanted to be a painter and graphic artist . In order to fully meet the requirements for admission to the Fachschule für Buch- und Kunstgewerbe Frankfurt, he first learned to be a typesetter. He studied with Albert Windisch . From 1921 to 1924 he attended the Offenbach am Main School of Applied Arts (today: Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main ), where he became a master student of Rudolf Koch and who considered him the most talented student of his "Offenbacher Werkgemeinschaft".

Paul Thiersch , the director of the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts in Halle (Saale) , brought him to his teaching institution in 1926, where in 1930 he led the writing class and the printing workshop. Avoiding totalitarian systems, he had considerable difficulties with the National Socialist and later with the Communist regime of the GDR . After he was appointed professor in Halle in 1950 , he fled to the West shortly afterwards in order to forestall a possible arrest and took over the management of the book printing and art classes at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, which had been planned for 1949. As a Rudolf Koch student, he was very welcome and a successful and valued teacher for six years. In 1956 he was appointed director of the master school for Germany's book printers in Munich , which was later renamed the Academy for the Graphic Arts and is now part of the Munich University of Applied Sciences .

Herbert Post was the last of the series of great teachers, such as Jan Tschichold , Paul Renner and Georg Trump , who worked at the master school. After this was converted into a technical college, the curricula changed. The artistic subjects were restricted in favor of technical subjects, also because of the enormous technical upheavals in the printing industry. A development that Herbert Post, the type artist, did not want to support. So in 1967 he retired into private life and devoted himself entirely to his artistic work. He also increasingly turned to the Herbert Post Presse (founded in 1953), one of the private presses that emerged after the Second World War, such as Richard von Sichowsky's cricket press or the Otto Rohse press.

A high point in his life was his new teaching position at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg , initiated by Oskar Kokoschka , where he taught calligraphy and typography in 1976 and 1977. He was unable to accept another appointment in the summer of 1978. He died shortly before of a heart failure at his vacation spot.

student

Writings by Herbert Post

  • Post Versal (1932)
  • Post Fraktur (1935)
  • Post uppercase half bold (1937)
  • Post Antiqua (1939)
  • Post Antiqua skinny (1940)
  • Post Fraktur semi-bold (1940)
  • Post Versal lean (1941)
  • Post Italic (1943)
  • Post Medieval (1944)
  • Post Medieval Italic (1944)
  • Post old-style semi-bold (1944)
  • Dynamics (1952)
  • Marcato (1961)

literature

  • Burg Giebichenstein: The Hallesche Kunstschule from the beginnings to the present, 1992, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ISBN 3-86105-076-0 , correct ISBN 3-86105-076-5
  • Wilhelm Nauhaus: The Giebichenstein Castle. History of a German art school 1915 - 1933. Leipzig: Seemann, 1981 / New edition Leipzig: Seemann, 1992, ISBN 3-363-00539-3
  • Katja Schneider : Burg Giebichenstein: The School of Applied Arts under the direction of Paul Thiersch and Gerhard Marcks 1915 - 1933. Weinheim: VCH, 1992, ISBN 3-527-17725-6
  • Katharina Heider: From applied arts to industrial design, the Burg Giebichenstein art college in Halle (Saale) from 1945 to 1958 , publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89739-672-2
  • Angela Dolgner (ed.): Herbert Post. Font - Typography - Graphics, Flugzeugkopf Verlag Halle 1997, ISBN 3-930195-22-4
  • Antiquariat Thomas Hatry: Documentation Library Herbert Post. Bibliography of the prints published in the Giebichenstein / Halle workshops from 1925-1951 and the Herbert-Post-Presse 1953-1973. For the 100th anniversary of the castle . Heidelberg 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Post, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Post, Herbert Max Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German type artist, typographer and book designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1978
Place of death Bayersoien