Joost Schmidt
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
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
- Literature by and about Joost Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Joost Schmidt in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Magdalena Droste: Bauhaus 1919 - 1933 . Ed .: Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8228-0401-0 , p. 252 .
- ↑ az-projekt / Designers: Joost Schmidt. Accessed January 2, 2017 .
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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 |