Klingspor Museum

The Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main is a museum for lettering and typography that started out as a graphic design museum. It is located in the south wing of the Büsing-Palais . In 2011, the building was refurbished and extended according to the historical model and the temporary flat roof was replaced.

collection

The museum with guests during an event

As part of his entrepreneurial activity at the Klingspor brothers , Karl Klingspor had created a collection of contemporary and historical graphic design objects . The collection includes the bequests of Werner Klemke , Rudolf Koch , Ernst Schneidler and Rudo Spemann . It also has the largest collection outside of the Netherlands on the typographer Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman , who with his experimental magazine “The next call” from 1923–1926 is one of the most influential avant-garde typographers of the 20th century. The systematically built up collection, which at his death in 1950 comprised over 3,000 printed works, was donated to the city of Offenbach by Karl Klingspor's heirs and formed the basis of the museum.

In 1953 the city of Offenbach founded the Klingspor Museum and appointed the designer Georg Alexander Mathéy as director. The inventory of the samples of graphic design (as illustrative material for the practical work) of the company Klingspor became an inventory of contemporary graphic design. Since Mathéy was followed by art historians, the museum was converted into a museum for artistic books and handicraft calligraphy .

Exhibitions (selection)

2011: Believing in the exquisite - Siegfried Guggenheim - A Jewish patron of books and writing
2012: Virulent stirring up in word and designation: Hartmut Andryczuk
2013: book, art, writing. FH Ernst Schneidler
2015/2016: International children's books
2016: Loud, colorful and angry . Book and graphics by Ottfried Zielke .

literature

Viola Hildebrand-Schat: Art has an impact. The artist's book as a borderline phenomenon , with a foreword by Stefan Soltek , ed. from the Klingspor Museum Offenbach. Lindlar, 2013. Die Neue Sachlichkeit, ISBN 978-3-942139-32-8
Andreas Hansert : Offenbach am Main. Culture in the wake of National Socialism. Applied Arts School, German Leather Museum, Klingspor font foundry. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-2052089-6-9

Web links

Commons : Klingspor Museum - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Thomas Kirstein: New attic for the Klingspormuseum in Offenbach. In: op-online.de. December 10, 2014, accessed April 29, 2015 .
↑ The foundation of the museum: Karl Klingspor's private library 1868 - 1950. From : klingspor-museum.de , accessed on April 29, 2015.
↑ Jewish-Christian fellowship. In: FAZ , from August 24, 2011, page 41.
↑ Andreas Hartmann: Great designer, great teacher. In: fr-online.de . March 8, 2013, accessed January 21, 2016 .
↑ The world in hands. In: FAZ , January 2, 2016, page 12.
^ Rudo Spemann Prize on the website of the city of Offenbach am Main . Retrieved June 18, 2015.

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[1] Thomas Kirstein: New attic for the Klingspormuseum in Offenbach. In: op-online.de. December 10, 2014, accessed April 29, 2015 .

[2] The foundation of the museum: Karl Klingspor's private library 1868 - 1950. From : klingspor-museum.de , accessed on April 29, 2015.

[3] Jewish-Christian fellowship. In: FAZ , from August 24, 2011, page 41.

[4] Andreas Hartmann: Great designer, great teacher. In: fr-online.de . March 8, 2013, accessed January 21, 2016 .

[5] The world in hands. In: FAZ , January 2, 2016, page 12.

[6] Rudo Spemann Prize on the website of the city of Offenbach am Main . Retrieved June 18, 2015.