Karl-Heinz Loetzsch

Karl-Heinz Lötzsch (born July 30, 1925 in Friedeberg am Queis ; † January 3, 2017 in Dresden ) was a German type artist and graphic artist .

Career

Lötzsch completed an apprenticeship as a script painter from 1939 to 1942. Between 1940 and 1942 he also attended courses at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . After the end of the Second World War, he worked as a commercial artist at DEFA -Produktion Sachsen from 1946 to 1948 . In 1948 he moved to DEWAG in Dresden. From 1950 he worked at the state printing company Saxony and from 1951 at the German event service in Dresden. Since 1952 he was freelance.

He volunteered for religious institutions. He designed the church news papers for the Annenkirche in Dresden and took on the graphic design and conception of the exhibition Jews in Saxony - Your Life and Sorrows in the Court Church . As a member of the Dresden working group Encounters with Judaism , he designed memorial plaques in memory of the murdered Dresden Jews. He was a member of the board of the Dresden Synagogue Building Association and took over all of the association's graphic work. He also campaigned for the Association of Artists Against Cancer .

Honors

• 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon artists in the GDR . New life publishing house, Berlin 2010
• Hellmut Rademacher, Commercial Graphics in the GDR, 1975, p. 338
• Award of the Federal Order of Merit , press release by the Prime Minister of Saxony, October 15, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice ( memento of the original from January 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in Dresdner Latest News from January 10, 2017.