Karl Langenbacher
Karl Langenbacher (born February 7, 1908 in Ladenburg am Neckar, † May 17, 1965 in Reutlingen ) was a German graphic artist, writer and radio play author.
Life
Karl Langenbacher spent the first years of his life in Ladenburg . In 1913 the family moved to Reutlingen , where he attended the Oberrealschule (today's Johannes Kepler Gymnasium). In 1926 Langenbacher graduated from high school. In 1927 he began studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, which he graduated as a Dipl.-Ing. completed.
Due to the poor career prospects for engineers, Langenbacher turned more and more to his artistic interests and advertising graphics in the following years. In Reutlingen he carried out occasional graphic jobs.
In 1932 Langenbacher went to the Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) machine factory in Nuremberg as an advertising specialist , and in 1938 as advertising manager at the Magdeburg machine tool factory (MWF) in Magdeburg. In 1940 he was drafted into the war as an engineer in Strasbourg . There he met HAP Grieshaber in 1943 , who ran a kind of underground press, the Clandestine press , in Haguenau . Together with Grieshaber, the text Plastic Meditations was created here in 1943 .
After the Second World War , Karl Langenbacher returned to Reutlingen, where he ran an office for advertising graphics. In the years that followed, numerous advertising concepts, company logos , brochures, posters, draft books and commemorative publications were created.
Karl Langenbacher was a founding member of the Ellipse artist group, which emerged from the Notgemeinschaft Tübinger-Reutlinger Künstler and existed from 1951 to 1965. In the 1950s, Karl Langenbacher wrote around 200 pieces as a radio play author for the Tübingen regional studio of Südwestfunk (SWF).
Karl Langenbacher died in Reutlingen in 1965 at the age of 57.
plant
Langenbacher's art teacher at the secondary school was Walter Ast , who a. a. was also a teacher of HAP Grieshaber , Arthur Fauser , Edo Leitner and Otto Fromann.
Before he started working as a commercial artist and in parallel, he created numerous oil paintings, graphics, drawings, watercolors, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, mobiles and sculptures.
1929 first exhibition in J. Kocher's bookstore in Reutlingen. 1930 Exhibition in Ackermanns Badbuchhandlung in Reutlingen. 1945 exhibition in the Bundeshalle in Reutlingen; this exhibition was also the first art exhibition in Reutlingen after the war. 1948 woodcut folder 12 children's drawings from the street . 1951 murals in Ebingen train station . 1956 Exhibition of pictures, experiments and applications in the donation house in Reutlingen. 1959 The Pissoire of the hometown (private print). 1962 Documentary A photo, a poster together with Franz Lazi .
literature
- Christoph Dohse (Hrsg.), Hommage à langbacher - artist literat advertising graphic artist , edition walbaum, Reutlingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-94151901-5
- Gustav Adolf Rieth, en souvenir de Karl Langenbacher , Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, born 1971, new series 9, pp. 1–68, Verlag Karl Knödler, Reutlingen 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Langenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langenbacher, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lgb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist, writer and radio play author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ladenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1965 |
| Place of death | Reutlingen |