Katharina Pieper
Katharina Pieper (born May 14, 1962 in Saarlouis ) is a German calligrapher and type artist.
Life
Katharina Pieper studied communication design at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 1987 with a diploma . From 1988 she received lectureships in typeface design at universities in Mainz, Saarbrücken, Wiesbaden and Ravensburg. In 1991 Katharina Pieper was invited to Belgium, where she held her first international workshop for the Scriptores calligraphy company . Similar events followed, among others in France, Italy, England, Norway, the USA, South Africa, Korea and India. In 1995 and 2004 she was appointed to a visiting professorship at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. As a result of her teaching activity , she received national and international invitations, where she introduced professional calligraphers and laypeople to her approach to calligraphic writing. From 1997 to 2003 Katharina Pieper was chairwoman of the non-profit association Ars Scribendi , the international society for the promotion of literary and written art. V. During this time she was also responsible for the content and design of the association magazine Ars Scribendi .
In her artistic work, Katharina Pieper dedicates herself above all to spiritual texts by Western and Eastern authors, but her own texts are also incorporated into her work. Her works can no longer be assigned to classic calligraphy. Pieper has been going her own way since the late 1980s, combining painting and classic lettering. She was present at 200 group and solo exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Her works are represented in German and foreign museums, libraries and collections. In 2012, Katharina Pieper gave a retrospective overview of her 30 years of calligraphy work at the German Newspaper Museum in Wadgassen .
After the death of her long-term partner Jean Larcher (1947-2015), who was an internationally known calligrapher, Katharina Pieper founded the Stiftung Schriftkultur eV in 2016 and from 2017 set up a center for calligraphy with a museum, gallery and Jean Larcher archive in the historic estate Königsbruch in Homburg .
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 1989: Scholarship and 2nd prize at the two-week Pentiment Summer Academy, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- 1991: Award of Excellence from Calligraphy Review , USA
- 1997: Belle Lettere Award , Italy
- 1998: International Grote Prijs Calligraphy , Westerlo, Belgium
- 2006: Certificate of Excellence from the Finnish Calligraphy Society
- 2007: Appointment as Honored Fellow Member of CLAS , England
- 2008: Callifest Award , India
- 2009 and 2013: Participation certificate Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-Do , Korea
Fonts (selection)
- Font writing. In the novum praxis. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7654-2388-2 .
- Everything flows - words in flow. Katharina Pieper Edition, Homburg 2001.
- Roots and wings, Katharina Pieper Edition, Homburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038049-5 .
- Calligraphy & handwriting. Christophorus Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8388-3532-7 .
- The calligraphic cookbook. Katharina Pieper Edition, Homburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-051333-6 .
- Writing meets art , Christopherus Verlag, Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86230-403-5 .
Works in collections (selection)
- Klingspor Museum , Offenbach
- Lower Saxony State Library , Hanover
- City Library, Bruges
- German Museum of Books and Writing , Leipzig
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Public Library, San Francisco
- Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, Moscow
- Fitzwilliam Collection of Contemporary Calligraphy , Cambridge
- Museum of Calligraphy, Sharjah
- German Newspaper Museum , Wadgassen
Web links
- Katharina Pieper, Calligraphy - Lettering
- Written Culture Foundation
- “Encounter and writing” - Katharina Pieper is showing a unique exhibition at Gut Königsbruch. Website of the city of Homburg , April 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Katharina Pieper - Germany. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Home. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ^ Exhibition "Roots & Wings - Calligraphy by Katharina Pieper 1982-2012". Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ^ Jean Larcher 1947-2015 | International Exhibition of Calligraphy. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Lots of space for calligraphy - The Writing Culture Foundation showed its rooms in Gut Königsbruch. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Jennifer Klein: Encounters with the art of writing . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 27, 2020, S C5
- ↑ Grote Prijs calligraphy - Gemeente Westerlo. In: westerlo.be. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ fellows - CLAS. In: clas.co.uk. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ↑ 許 蘭 雪 軒 詩 Heo Nan-seol-Heon's poem. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pieper, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German calligrapher and type artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarlouis |