Ludwig Breitwieser

Ludwig Breitwieser (born May 12, 1900 in Ober-Ramstadt ; † December 31, 1965 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German graphic artist and teacher (teacher).

Life

Georg Karl Ludwig Breitwieser was born in 1900 in Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt. His parents were the quarry owner (Basaltwerk Roßberg - OHI ) Ludwig Breitwieser II. And Sophie Elise Wilhelmine, geb. from Wachter. He attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. There he was one of the founding members of the expressionist association Die Dachstube . Due to his artistic talent, he took over the graphic design of the publications together with Joseph Würth , including texts by Carlo Mierendorff and Theodor Haubach . He also designed the leaflets that appeared until November 1918.

After the First World War, he studied and pursued the career of a teacher. From 1929 to 1931 he was at a German school in Mexico. He worked as a teacher in Gedern , Seligenstadt and Offenbach am Main . In November 1938 he was promoted to the teaching position.

Breitwieser dealt intensively with the works of William Shakespeare and self-published his research results after the Second World War. His greatest merit was to look for the surviving former members of the “attic” after the Second World War and to write down the history of the “attic” together with them. This report was published after his death in 1976 and sheds light on the central aspects of the development and work of the former Circle of Friends.

Publications

• The Wrong and the True Shakespeare. Self-published, Offenbach a. M. 1963.
• "The attic". The development of the circle of friends and its magazine. (together with Fritz Usinger and Hermann Klippel). Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 1976.

literature

• Article Ludwig Breitwieser . In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 105.
• Claus K. Netuschil : The Darmstädter Verlag Handpresse Joseph Würth: A contribution to the history of publishing and book art in Darmstadt 1927-1948, Netuschil, 1980.