Klaus Groezinger

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Klaus Grözinger (* 18th February 1923 in Friemersheim on the Lower Rhine , † 20 July 2011 in Braunschweig ) was a German poster - artist and university lecturer . From 1963 to 1988 he was professor for commercial graphics at the Braunschweig University of Art .

Life

Grözinger was one of the founders of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. He was instrumental in the transformation of the former Werkkunstschule Braunschweig into today's university.

Grözinger completed an apprenticeship in type lithography . He was a soldier in World War II . In 1950 he completed a degree in commercial graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Ernst Schneidler and Walter Brudi . Until 1953 he worked as a graphic artist in the Bentele studio in Stuttgart . Then Grözinger became a permanent employee at the S + H Lämmle studio at the same location. In February 1955 he founded his own graphic studio in Stuttgart. In November of the same year, Klaus Grözinger succeeded Hermann Eidenbenz as head of the commercial graphics department - a teaching position at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig. In April 1956 he was teacher . On March 1, 1963, the year it was founded, Grözinger became professor for commercial graphics at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 1987/88 Grözinger took a research semester. He set up the poster design department and supervised student projects in collaboration with the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum . In April 1988, Professor Grözinger retired after 25 years. He died in Braunschweig in 2011.

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In the 1990s he began to process his work, including his extensive graphic collection. He continued to carry out advisory work and commissioned work for the university and in 1990 was given a teaching position for graphic design and writing: signs and systems . Grözinger was looking for artistic forms of expression while taking technical feasibility into account.

In addition to the search for artistic forms of expression, Klaus Grözinger also had technical implementation in mind. Good contacts to the graphic industry helped him. These contacts also repeatedly benefited his students, who were given internships in renowned design agencies or, for example, were able to work with printers and type foundries . Grözinger made a name for himself in Braunschweig with poster designs for the Braunschweig museums. Between 1988 and 1995 he organized the lecture series International designers have their say - often in connection with poster research: Heinz-Jürgen Kristahn (1988), Hans Hillmann (1991), Günther Kieser (1991), Volker Pfüller (1993), Holger Matthies (1993 ), Uwe Loesch (1993), Klaus Schmidt (1994) and Siegfried Maser (1995). In 1992 and 1995 he was a scientific advisor to the Lower Saxony state government on the visual communication of the development of the Lower Saxony style and worked as a juror in poster competitions of the state government. 1991 Participation in the structure and appointment committee of the Senator for Science and Research Berlin of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Eastern contacts

Between 1989 and 1992 he contacted design schools in the former GDR and gave lectures on graphic design and law and poster research in Magdeburg, Halle and Leipzig, among others. Since 1990 he has organized lectures by and with designers from the former GDR: Gerhard Voigt (Halle), Jochen Fiedler (Halle / Leipzig), Norbert du Vinage (Dresden). In connection with the department for the public of the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and the Bund Deutscher Grafik-Designer Gruppe Niedersachsen, the congress Graphic Design: Future in Economy and Culture under the patronage of the then Federal Minister for Economy, Helmut Haussmann. At the same time, he ensures that the exhibition P40, posters from the GDR in connection with the Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs is shown in the university gallery during this East-West congress .

Poster exhibitions (selection)

Works

  • Design of posters. Stiebner Verlag, Grünwald 2000, ISBN 3-8307-1262-6 .
  • Press album graphic design 1953–1987: History of graphic design at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts in the daily press. University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-88895-023-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Brodersen and Braunschweig University of Fine Arts: Des1gnbuch. Status Quo 1997. Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-04-1 , p. 156.
  2. ^ Poster researcher Prof. Klaus Grözinger dies - He was one of the founding fathers of the HBK Braunschweig. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. on print.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.print.de
  3. ↑ What criteria are there that are used when evaluating posters? ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 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. on brunnenrand.de (PDF; 29 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brunnenrand.de
  4. ^ Anne Brodersen and Braunschweig University of Fine Arts: Des1gnbuch. Status Quo 1997. Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-04-1 , p. 157.
  5. ^ Association of graphic designers of the GDR and Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs: P40. Posters from the GDR. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87585-184-6 .
  6. ^ Anne Brodersen and Braunschweig University of Fine Arts: Des1gnbuch. Status Quo 1997. Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-04-1 , p. 157.
personal data
SURNAME Groezinger, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poster artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Friemersheim (Duisburg)
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2011
Place of death Braunschweig