Karl-Georg Hirsch

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Karl-Georg Hirsch (born May 13, 1938 in Breslau ) is a German graphic artist and wood engraver as well as a university professor who is known for numerous book illustrations and graphic series.

education

After an apprenticeship and work as a plasterer , he studied from 1960 to 1965 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB), where he graduated with Gerhard Kurt Müller . He then worked as a freelancer until 1967. This was followed by an assistant at the HGB until 1970 , where he took over the management of the woodcut workshop there . In 1976 he taught at the HGB as a lecturer , from 1981 to 1982 also as a guest lecturer for woodcut and wood engraving at the university in the Finnish city ​​of Jyväskylä . In 1989 Hirsch was appointed professor for graphics and illustration at the HGB , where he supervised many master class students, such as Grit Anton, Young-Sook Cha, Katrin Prinich-Heutzenröder, Stefan Knechtel and Thomas M. Müller . He held the professorship until 2003. From 1990 to 1997 he was also the prorector of the HGB. From 1978 to 1987 he headed the central graphics group in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK).

Hirsch lives and works in Leipzig and Dölitzsch near Geithain .

Artistic work

His extensive oeuvre focuses on the technique of wood engraving , but also includes drawings , woodcuts and etchings . Hirsch works mainly with intermediate tones in simple black and white; Apart from a few hand-colored leaves, he only uses color in exceptional cases. He draws artistic inspiration primarily from poetry and texts from the shorter prose, for which he creates congenial illustrations. He works closely with poets and writers as well as typographers in order to make the book as the end product of such an artistic creative process as an organic unit of text and illustration effective on the reader. Older literature also challenges the committed illustrator, such as texts by Pushkin , Gogol or Stevenson . Hirsch works a. a. for the Aufbau-Verlag , the Leipziger Solomon-Presse, the Burgart-Presse Jens Henkel in Rudolstadt , where the catalog raisonné for his book artistic oeuvre was published in 1996 and 2008 , and the Gutenberg Book Guild . After initial work for the Leipziger Haus des Insel Verlag on works by Stevenson (Insel-Bücherei Nos. 302/2 and 859, see below), he has been working for this publisher and this book series since the 1990s and is celebrating the centenary of the book series 2012 the title Rainer Maria Rilke's number 1 in the series program since 1912, The Wise of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke , illustrated with scrapbooks ; however, the volume thus equipped was given volume number 1350 as the anniversary edition.

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personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Karl-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw