Joost Schmidt

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Joost Schmidt (born January 5, 1893 in Wunstorf ; died December 2, 1948 in Nuremberg ) was a German typographer , painter and teacher at the Bauhaus .

Life

Bauhaus booklet 7 1926

Schmidt studied from 1910 to 1914 in Weimar at the Academy of Fine Arts . He was a soldier in World War I and was taken prisoner by the Americans in France. After that he was a master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar until 1925 . In 1925 he married the Bauhaus student Helene Nonné (1891–1976). From 1925 to 1932 he taught himself at the newly built Bauhaus Dessau , where he in the meantime managed the plastic workshop , the advertising department and the Bauhaus printing house . From 1935 to 1936, when he was banned from teaching , Schmidt taught art and work at the private school run by Hugo Häring (formerly the Reimann School ). After the Second World War, Schmidt accepted a professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1946 he and a group of Bauhaus members designed the exhibition “Berlin plans / First Report” and 1947/48 exhibitions for the USA Exhibition Center.

In 1964, his works were shown posthumously at documenta III in Kassel in the graphics department .

font

  • Teaching and working at the Bauhaus 1919–32 . with contributions by Heinz Loew and Helene Nonne-Schmidt. Düsseldorf: Edition Marzona, 1984

literature

  • Josef Straßer: 50 Bauhaus icons that you should know . Munich: Prestel, 2009, p. 31f .; P. 146ff.
  • Basil Gilbert: Interview with Helene Nonné-Schmidt , in: Eckhard Neumann (Ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 185–193

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Schmidt-Nonne , with Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, 5th edition, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 185-193
  2. ↑ Joost Schmidt: Bauhaus100. (No longer available online.) In: www.bauhaus100.de. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was 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.bauhaus100.de
  3. ^ Magdalena Droste: Bauhaus 1919 - 1933 . Ed .: Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8228-0401-0 , p. 252 .
  4. ↑ az-projekt / Designers: Joost Schmidt. Accessed January 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Joost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer, painter and teacher at the Bauhaus
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wunstorf
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1948
Place of death Nuremberg