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Klaus-Peter Dienst doing typographic work

Klaus-Peter Dienst (born March 28, 1935 in Kiel ; † November 8, 1982 in Itzehoe ) was a German painter , graphic artist , calligrapher and art teacher.

Life

Klaus-Peter Dienst first grew up in Kiel. When his father became mayor of the municipality of Breitenburg-Nordoe , he attended the Kaiser-Karl-Schule in Itzehoe as a pupil , where he graduated from high school in 1955. Dienst studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts until 1960, including in Werner Bunz's class for writing graphics . In December 1959 he was involved in the art campaign Unendliche Linie by Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Bazon Brock . From 1963 to 1965 Klaus-Peter Dienst continued his studies at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Gerhard Fietz . From 1969 until his death he worked as an art teacher at his former grammar school, the Kaiser-Karl-Schule in Itzehoe.

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Excerpt from the Carmina Burana by Klaus-Peter Dienst

From 1960 to 1965 Klaus-Peter Dienst and his brother Rolf-Gunter self-published the experimental art and literary magazine Rhinozeros . In the ten editions that have appeared, the Dienst brothers published visual poetry and transposed texts by well-known authors into typographical and calligraphic terms. The text contributions - mostly first publications - came from a. by Samuel Beckett , Allen Ginsberg , Brion Gysin , Peter Härtling , Eva van Hoboken , Walter Höllerer , Jürgen Holm, Dieter Hülsmanns , Anselm Hollo , Jack Kerouac , Henry Miller , Peter Rühmkorf and Dieter Wellershoff .

Excerpt from the Carmina Burana by Klaus-Peter Dienst

In 1962 Dienst published the "text composition" Carmina Burana as a limited edition screw strap , which gave the medieval text collection of the same name an unusual appearance. Dienst designed the Latin verses of the text as an idiosyncratic topography of letters with contrasting black and white areas. The writer Franz Mon wrote about Klaus-Peter Dienst's calligraphic style: “Dienst used the strict geometric grid to move the individual letters together to form a texture. The legibility became a secondary matter, character correspondences beyond the text emerged. "

Exhibitions

From 2015 to 2017, students at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences worked on an exhibition about Klaus-Peter Dienst under the direction of Holger Jacobs and Victor Malsy . Family members, former colleagues from the Kaiser Karl School , members of the former Langer Peter Verlag , as well as neighbors, friends and other contemporary witnesses were visited for the research.

• 2017–2018 Klaus-Peter Dienst. Calligrammatic typography and poetic text images , NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
• 2019 Klaus-Peter Dienst. Calligrammatic typography and poetic text images , Wenzel Hablik Museum , Itzehoe

Publications (selection)

• Klaus-Peter Dienst: Starfighter . Itzehoe 1959, edition 20.
• Klaus-Peter Dienst: Nackedai Duo - dance party tours . Itzehoe 1963, edition 160, signed and numbered by hand.
• Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunter Dienst (eds.): Rhinozeros , No. 1 (Itzehoe 1960) to No. 10 (Berlin 1965), Rhinozeros Archive .
• Klaus-Peter Dienst: Carmina Burana . Calligraphic text composition. Introduction: Manfred de la Motte , Itzehoe 1962, edition of 500, hand-signed & numbered.
• Klaus-Peter Dienst: Dictionaire grapho-grammatico . Cologne 1968.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Reschke: Commemorative speech for Peter Dienst . In: Association of Former Kaiser Karl Students Itzehoe eV (Ed.): Bulletin No. 122 . Itzehoe 1982, pp. 5-7
2. ↑ Jed Birmingham: Rhinozeros Archive , RealityStudio. A William S. Burroughs Community (English).
3. ^ Franz Mon: Calligraphic comparative for KPD In: Peter Dienst. Sheets and pictures. An exhibition by the Kaiser-Karl-Schule Itzehoe. Kunsthaus Itzehoe, May 19 to June 19, 1983 . Itzehoe 1983, p. 6 .
4. ↑ Website of the NRW Forum , accessed on March 20, 2020
5. ^ Internet site of the Wenzel Hablik Museum , accessed on March 20, 2020