Hilde Roth

Hilde Roth (born November 26, 1925 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein as Hilde Rabe) is a master tailor and designer and lives in Ludwigshafen am Rhein.

Life

After finishing school, Hilde Roth completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, graduated in 1945, master's examination in 1950. In the post-war period, she designed and produced her own clothes. From 1949 to 1951 the Kunst + Mode project with fashion designs painted by her husband Eugen Roth . Together with her husband she is involved in the literary cabaret ' Die Schmiere ', Frankfurt / Main. From 1955 she designed exhibition stands and developed her own variable and modular assembly systems for exhibition stands. Furthermore, Hilde Roth developed a modular, variable flower box system "floraplex" made of acrylic glass, made of aluminum cylinders under the name "euro-form" ashtrays and cans for a wide variety of applications and other consumer goods. From 1958 she dealt with the constructive use of geometric surfaces for design. This resulted in her play objects "mobile grafik", which were publicized from 1971 under the names "mobile grafik triangel" and "mobile grafik Rondo" in the form of freely combinable colored pieces of magnetic foil. In 1968 she was one of the founding members of the group parallel . In the 1970s she designed numerous schools and public buildings together with her husband Eugen Roth, using elements of “mobile graphics” again and again. In 1978, Hilde Roth stopped the complex production and marketing of "mobile graphics" due to lack of time. Since the 1990s she has been supporting her husband Eugen Roth intensively in the design and creation of exhibitions of his computer graphics.

Hilde Roth was married to Eugen Roth from 1947 until his death. She has a daughter, Christel Burghard-Wörfel .

Awards

• 1972 “spiel-gut” rating for “mobile graphics” by the Good Toys Working Committee
• 1972 Design Center Stuttgart
• 1973 5th International Biennale Ljubljana, 2nd honorable mention for the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1975 Design of the FRG Moscow

bibliography

• Fidelius and the vagabond , illustrations: Johannes Grüger . Stuttgart 1953

literature

• Schikowski, Frederik: Play objects from the 1960s and 1970s , free scientific work to obtain the degree of Magister Artium at the Department of History and Cultural Studies of the Free University of Berlin at the Institute of Art History, Berlin 2006

Web links

• Hilde Roth (art-castello, Schweinfurt)