Hildegard Korger
Hildegard Korger (born June 18, 1935 in Reichenberg ; † November 8, 2018 ) was a German type designer .
Live and act
Korger moved from her hometown Reichenberg (today Liberec, Czech Republic ) to Heiligendamm in 1956 to study at the technical school for applied arts there until 1959 ; Subsequently, from 1959 to 1963, she studied at the University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig (HGB), in particular with Prof. Albert Kapr . From 1963 to 1965 she worked as a freelancer, initially as an assistant at the HGB, where she taught from 1979 and was appointed professor in 1992. From 1976 to 1984 she was also a script consultant in the office of the chief architect of the city of Leipzig and a member of committees on issues relating to the preservation of monuments and art in buildings. Her educational activity shaped many generations of students and the reputation of the HGB, because, in addition to knowledge and craftsmanship, she imparted a high degree of form security and attached importance to the reflection of taste and tradition in dealing with writing . She held visiting professorships in Dresden and Braunschweig . In 1999 she stopped teaching, but continued to work as a font designer. She was a member of the Association Typographique Internationale .
Works
She became known for her font designs for the Typoart foundry (including the Font Kis , which was published in 2006 by Elsner + Flake as an Open-Type Pro version) and her specialist books, especially writing and writing .
Fonts
- Hildegard Korger: Font design . Dresden 1965
- Hildegard Korger: Writing. Leipzig 1971
- Hildegard Korger: writing and writing . Leipzig 1971; engl. Handbook of Type and Lettering. New York 1991
- Hildegard Korger: Writing and writing in the classroom. Leipzig 1999
Web links
- Klingspor Museum: http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Korger/HKorger.pdf
- Contribution to the 8th annual journal for artist books and hand press prints by Katharina Pieper: http://www.leipzigart.de/SpezialHGB.html
- Short biography on Typografie.info: https://www.typografie.info/3/Personen/wiki.html/hildegard-korger-r36/
- Fonts by Hildegard Korger on myfonts.com: https://www.myfonts.com/person/Hildegard_Korger/
- No white mountain range. An obituary for Hildegard Korger, the long-standing teacher of scripts at the HGB: https://kreuzer-leipzig.de/2018/11/20/kein-deckweissgebirge/ Retrieved on March 29, 2020
literature
- Norbert Hornig : Leipzig poster art. Leipzig 1985
- Albert Kapr / Detlef Schäfer : Photo typesetting. Itzehoe 1989
- Walter Bergner: Well-founded promotion of the written culture. To the efforts of the Leipzig Institute for Book Art for school writing and calligraphy. Special print from: Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte , 7, 1997, ISBN 3-447-03938-8
- Friedrich Friedl / Nicolaus Ott / Bernard Stein : Typography - When, Who, How. Cologne 1998
- Pasted over - posters from the GDR. Exhibition catalog Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , Schwerin 2007
- Julia Blume, Fred Smeijers: A Century of Writing and Writing Lessons in Leipzig. University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-932865-57-2
- Sylvia Werfel: After 1945: The Leipzig School. In: Roots and Wings. Calligraphy by Katharina Pieper 1982 to 2012. Homburg: Pieper-Ed., ISBN 978-3-00-038049-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Klingspor Museum. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Hildegard Korger. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Julia Meer: Hildegard Korger . In: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer (Eds.): Women in Graphic Design . Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 606 .
- ^ Font Family Page. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Hildegard Korger: Writing and writing . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1991, ISBN 978-3-343-00134-7 .
- ↑ writing and writing by Hildegard Korger - ZVAB. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korger, Hildegard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German type designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2018 |