Horst Erich Wolter

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Horst Erich Wolter (born August 26, 1906 in Memel ; † February 14, 1984 in Lindenthal (Leipzig) ) was a German typographer , commercial artist and book designer in the GDR .

life and work

Horst Erich Wolter completed a typesetter's apprenticeship in Memel from 1920 to 1924 and worked from 1925 in Leipzig for the Schelter & Giesecke printing company , and from 1927 as the first commercial typesetter for the Poeschel & Trepte printing company . From 1929 he was the head typesetter in the Haag-Drugulin office in Leipzig.

In addition to his job, he attended the evening school of the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig from 1925 to 1930 , where he studied with Georg Alexander Mathéy, among others, and obtained his master's degree in 1930. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 he received a gold medal and a Diplom d'Honneur .

After the Second World War he played a key role in the reconstruction of the Offizin Haag-Drugulin , which was renamed Offizin Andersen Nexö Leipzig in 1954 , and was its artistic and technical director from 1948 to 1971 . Together with Karl Gossow (1904–1962) and Albert Kapr (1918–1995) he initiated the first national book art exhibition after the war. The selected books were presented in the Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig and the annual exhibition "Most Beautiful Books of the GDR" developed from this. He was also the chairman of the jury for the International Book Art Exhibitions in Leipzig, which began in 1959, in 1959, 1965 and 1971. At times he was responsible for the typographical design of the magazine Marginalien published by the Pirckheimer Society . Journal responsible for book art and bibliophilia .

In 1959 he was the first recipient of the newly created Gutenberg Prize . In 1962 he was appointed professor and in 1974 was awarded the GDR National Prize for "his services to the preservation of the best traditions of book design and the development of book art" .

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  • Elmar Jansen : Horst Erich Wolter and the VEB Offizin "Martin Andersen Nexö" in Leipzig . In: Bildende Kunst , Henschel-Verlag, Berlin, vol. 9 (1961), pp. 708f. ISSN  0006-2391 .
  • Walter Bergner: Horst Erich Wolter . In: Albert Kapr (Ed.): Traditions Leipziger Buchkunst. Carl Ernst Poeschel, Walter Tiemann, Hugo Steiner-Prag, Ignaz Wiemeler, Horst Erich Wolter . Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1989, pp. 224-278. ISBN 3-343-00475-8 .
  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . Verlag Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-936508-03-8 .
  • Helmut Bähring, Kurt Rüddiger (Hrsg.): Lexicon Buchstadt Leipzig. From the beginning until 1990 . Tauchaer Verlag, Taucha 2008. ISBN 978-3-89772-147-0 , pp. 103, 277.
  • Herbert Kästner : Two centenarians. Egon Pruggmayer and Horst Erich Wolter . In: Marginalia. Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliophilie , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Vol. 183 (2006), pp. 61–65, ISSN  0025-2948 .
  • Wolter, Horst Erich. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 1046-1047.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Situation 66 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1966, p. 194
  2. ↑ See Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , Leipzig 2005, pp. 652f.
  3. ↑ List of the award winners on the website of the City of Leipzig ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipzig.de
personal data
SURNAME Wolter, Horst Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer, commercial artist and book designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1984
Place of death Lindenthal (Leipzig)