Joachim Riess

Joachim Riess (born June 23, 1937 in Chemnitz ) is a German graphic artist and medalist . With the design of over 230 stamps, most of them in the GDR , but also after the fall of the Wall in the Federal Republic of Germany , he is considered one of the most productive German stamp designers .

Career

After his apprenticeship as a graphic draftsman, which lasted from 1951 to 1954, he worked as a commercial artist at VEB Fettchemie Karl-Marx-Stadt , today's Chemnitz, until 1959 . Between 1959 and 1964 Riess worked in the Chemnitz department of the GDR advertising company DEWAG . From 1961, Rieß was a member of the Association of Visual Artists as a commercial artist . In 1965 he gave up his job and since then has been working freelance in the field of small graphics and illustration, trade fair and exhibition design, but mainly as a stamp designer. In 1967 he received the art prize of the FDJ , in the same year also the culture prize of the RdB Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1965 to 1992 Riess worked in the designer team with Manfred Gottschall and Hans Detlefsen . During this period he received the Golden Postage Stamp award several times . In the period from 1978 to 1988 he designed various graphic designs for special coins of the State Mint in Berlin together with the sculptor Volker Beier .

Since 1996 he has been working with his wife Renate Rieß in the field of postal graphics, illustrations for museums, business and commerce. Rieß also works as a freelance painter and graphic artist.

Works (selection)

Coins

1980 Ernst Abbe 20 M.
1981 Freiherr vom Stein 20 M
1982 New Gewandhaus Leipzig 10 M
1985 Semperoper 10 m
1985 Humboldt University Berlin 10 M
1986 Charité Berlin 10 M
1987 Nicolaiviertel Berlin 5 M
1988 Ernst Barlach 5 M

Postage stamps

German Post of the GDR

Special edition Invincible Vietnam (1971, MiNr. 1699)

1965 : Special edition on the visit of Soviet cosmonauts in the GDR

1966 : Special edition 900 years of Wartburg

1967 : Special edition World Championship in Biathlon 1967 in Altenberg (Eastern Ore Mountains)

1967: Special edition 10th Mass of the Masters of Tomorrow from November 15-16, 1967 in Leipzig

1968 : Special edition 75 years of the main observatory in Potsdam

1968: Special edition World Meteorology Day on March 23, 1968 (together with M. Gottschall)

1968: Special edition 2nd European junior athletics competition in Leipzig

1968: Special edition of the European Championships for Women in Rowing in Berlin

1968: Special edition world championships in tournament fishing in Güstrow

1969 : Special edition of the 2nd GDR Women's Congress

1969: Special edition World Peace Meeting in Berlin (East)

1971 : Invincible Vietnam special edition

1971 : Special edition for campaigns against racism

1979 : Albert Einstein block edition

1980 : The youth stamp exhibition in Suhl

1981 : International Year of the Victims 1981

1990 : 125 years of the International Telecommunication Union (UIT)

1990: Special stamp for the 70th birthday of Pope John Paul II.

German Federal Post Office

on the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death

1991 : Stamp block 200th anniversary of the death of WA Mozart (election as the most beautiful postage stamp by the trade press and award of the Robert Stolz Trophy 1992 as the most beautiful music stamp in the world )

1991: Protected Sea Birds series

1992 : Family creates a future special stamp (choice of the "most beautiful postage stamp" by the trade press)

1993 : series for sport

1993: Johannes von Nepomuk special stamp , was issued with different national values as a joint issue in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

1993: Peter Tchaikovsky special stamp

1994 : Block edition of the 150th birthday of Carl Hagenbeck and 150 years of the Berlin Zoo

German Post AG

1995 : Series For the Young

1996 : series for the youth

1997 : Block edition 50 years of the German Forest Protection Association

1997: Stamp Day Block Issue

1998 : Series For Welfare Care (election to the "Most Beautiful Postage Stamp" by the trade press)

1999 : Special stamp EXPO 2000 Hanover

2000 : Block edition of the Hainich National Park (choice of "Most Beautiful Postage Stamp" by the trade press)

2003 : Series World Heritage by UNESCO : Cologne Cathedral

2003: Series Natural Monuments in Germany : Petrified Forest Chemnitz

2006 850 years Michaeliskirche in Schwäbisch Hall

2006: Series of pictures from Germany : Black Forest

2009 : Special stamp 500 years town hall Frankenberg an der Eder

2011 : Special stamp for two castle views in the Werra valley

Exhibitions

1996 Main Post Office Chemnitz
1997 Augustusburg Castle
1998 Chemnitz castle pond halls
1999 Klaffenbach moated castle
2001 City Hall Düsseldorf
2014 Gallery in the master house in Limbach-Oberfrohna

Web links

Commons : Joachim Rieß - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon Artists in the GDR , Berlin, 2010, p. 772
Vollmer, Vol. VI
H. Rademacher: Commercial graphics in the GDR , Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, 1975
Color graphics in the GDR , Schwerin, 1979
G. Feist: Kunstkombinat DDR (Doc.) , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88940-064-7
Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt (NNB) 5/2014, p. 192f
Dethlefs, Gerd [Hrsg.]: Geldkunst - Kunstgeld: German commemorative coins since 1949. Design and designer . Osnabrück 2005. ISBN 3-9801644-7-0
Central Saxon art exhibition 1955. Museum on Theaterplatz / Karl-Marx-Stadt. Exhibition catalog, self-published, 1955. Printed by Franz Zimmermann
3rd Workers' Festival of the GDR. Cultural History Museum Magdeburg 1961.

Individual evidence

^ Karl-Heinz Weigelt, Sieglinde Weigelt, Gunter Weigelt: Medals made from Meissen porcelain . 1980-1983. VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1986, p. 497 .

personal data
SURNAME	Riess, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German graphic artist and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz

[1] Karl-Heinz Weigelt, Sieglinde Weigelt, Gunter Weigelt: Medals made from Meissen porcelain . 1980-1983. VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1986, p. 497 .