Joshua Leander Gampp

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Joshua Leander Gampp at work
Woodcut

Josua Leander Gampp (born August 26, 1889 in Buch ; † December 8, 1969 in Karlsruhe ) was a graphic artist , painter and university professor .

Life

Josua Leander Gampp came from a long -established family in the Black Forest - more precisely in the Hotzenwald . With the positive judgment by Hans Thoma , he should become a teacher. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. The twenty year old became a master class student of Professor Walter Georgi . After further studies in Berlin with ER Weiß and the interruption of the war in 1915, he founded his own household in Hamburg-Bergedorf in 1920 and became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . In 1933 he took over a master class for woodcut, illustration, book design and writing at the Karlsruhe Academy as successor to Ernst Würtenberger . After the war he headed the academy as director for two years.

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Josua Leander Gampp achieved widespread attention and popularity primarily through his book illustrations using woodcuts .

For the Christmas calendar “Pre-Christmas” (1942 and 1943) created during the Nazi era, Gampp designed the title and cover pages.

literature

  • Hugo Ernst Rahner, Josua Leander Gampp - Life and Work , Ed .: Landkreis Waldshut, 1968 <

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Ernst Rahner, Josua Leander Gampp - Life and Work , p. 7
  2. ↑ Thea Haupt: Vorweihnachten, Ed. Hauptkulturamt in the Reich Propagandaleitung, Franz Eher Nachf., Munich, 1942
personal data
SURNAME Gampp, Joshua Leander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH book
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1969
Place of death Karlsruhe