Ludwig Koob

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Ludwig Koob, 1987

Ludwig Koob (born February 17, 1909 in Frankenthal / Pfalz; † June 9, 1993 in Wuppertal ) was a German commercial and commercial graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator .

Life

Ludwig Koob was born in Frankenthal / Pfalz in 1909. In 1920 he moved with his parents and three siblings via Gaggenau (Baden-Württemberg) to Gera (Thuringia). After graduating from secondary school in Gera in 1928, he began his artistic training at the Feige-Strassburger fashion drawing school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . He then took up his practical work as a commercial graphic artist and decorative painter, initially in Berlin in the Tietz department store and then moved via Stuttgart to Wuppertal - Barmen , where he worked as a commercial graphic artist in the department store of the brothers S. + R. Choice continued. In 1948 he started his own business and worked as a freelance studio in the Merkur House in Wuppertal-Barmen.

In 1941 - with interruptions until the end of the Second World War - he was drafted into military service and returned to Wuppertal in 1946 after being a prisoner of war in Italy . After his return from captivity, he continued his freelance / self-employed work with a studio and apartment in Wuppertal-Barmen and after moving to Wuppertal- Elberfeld in 1956 until his death in 1993.

Ludwig Koob and his wife Sophie Koob, b. Hinnenberg (married in 1939), two sons, Olaf Koob (* 1943) and Ronald Koob (* 1949).

Artistic creation

From about 1938 until his death in 1993, Ludwig Koob worked as a freelance commercial and commercial graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator in the city of Wuppertal. The city of Wuppertal was the center of his life for over 50 years, the place of his work, from which his ideas in the form of advertising graphics and humor drawings originated in all directions. During this period he created his humor drawings for various German and Swiss magazines, commercial and advertising graphics as well as typographic work for regional and national clients. He was a member of the " Ring Bergischer Künstler ", which had its seat in the " Galerie Palette - Röderhaus " in the Röder house in Wuppertal-Barmen. Years of collaboration linked him with the press and advertising office of the city of Wuppertal (for which he designed the famous zoo poster “Visit me at the Wuppertal Zoo”), with the German Industrial Institute in Cologne, for which he won the “Dorettchen- Jokes ”as a humorous supplement and with the General-Anzeiger der Stadt Wuppertal (later Westdeutsche Zeitung ), for which he regularly designed political caricatures, annual reviews and special supplements for decades. He was represented with humor drawings in the Swiss “Nebelspalter” or in the German “Bunte” as well as an employee of the brand industry. He created graphs for industrial sectors and their associations, including graphics for the Institute of German Economy, “activ” informedia Verlags gmbh, for Inter-Nationes and the main association of the German construction industry.

With the publication of his posters in the international yearbooks for graphic design (modern publicity, GB, International Poster Annual and graphis annual, CH) and his participation in the "International Biennial of Humor and Satire" he also consolidated his reputation as a graphic designer.

technology

After his training at the fashion drawing school, his most important drawing utensil remained the pencil. With the wiping technique he then gave his drawings the right shades and fine shades of gray. In his graphic diagrams he later used the grid foil as shading. At the same time, he used pen, chalk, charcoal, pen and ink technique with broad pen and watercolors in his "freehand technique". With these techniques he gave his quiet, witty and subtle humor drawings, caricatures and advertising graphics his own style.

Humorous caricatures - humor drawings from approx. 1938–1993 (selection)

Single publications / full-page humor articles

  • Bunte Illustrierte , Munich
  • Deutscher Adrian-Verlag, Trieste (before 1945)
  • General-Anzeiger of the city of Wuppertal
  • Have a good trip , magazine for Volkswagen
  • IBZ = Illustrated Berlin Magazine
  • Munich Illustrated Press
  • The noon, newspaper for the Rhine and Ruhr
  • Nebelspalter , Horn / Switzerland
  • Neue Illustrierte Zeitung , Berlin
  • Neue Illustrierte , Cologne
  • Pikkolo - humorous-satirical weekly newspaper
  • Penguin , Stuttgart
  • Quick, Die current Illustrierte , Munich
  • Schwäbische Illustrierte , Stuttgart
  • Schweizer Auto-Magazin , Bern / Switzerland
  • Tele , Saarbrücken
  • Weltbild , Augsburg
  • Westdeutsche Zeitung , Wuppertal / Düsseldorf

Political cartoons from 1954–1977

  • General-Anzeiger of the city of Wuppertal
  • Nebelspalter , Horn / Switzerland
  • Penguin , Stuttgart
  • Rheinischer Merkur , Bonn
  • Westdeutsche Zeitung , Wuppertal / Düsseldorf

Commercial and advertising graphics from around 1950–1993

  • Auto-Merkur (car dealership)
  • Dr. Kurt Herbert's colors
  • Chain works Ruberg & Renner
  • Luhn's soap factory
  • Luhnika soap powder
  • Metzenauer & Jung (switching devices)
  • Bemberg AG (textile company)
  • Piccolo Comedy (Chamber Theater)
  • Ring Bergischer Künstler
  • City of Wuppertal
  • Tienes private brewery
  • Wuppertal public utilities
  • Wuppertal Zoo
  • ARAL mineral oil company
  • Allgäuer Alpenmilch AG (bear brand)
  • Bavarian publishing house Bamberg and Wiesbaden
  • NSU Automobile (today VW / AUDI Group)
  • VW Volkswagen works Wolfsburg

Design of publications, brochures and diagrams, text illustrations, cover designs for books from approx. 1954–1993 for the following publications

  • Deutsche Delattre & Levivier GmbH Industrieanlagen, Düsseldorf
  • German Industrial Institute, Cologne
  • Main Association of the German Construction Industry eV, Berlin
  • Inter-Nationes, Bonn
  • Publishing house for German economic biographies (Verlag Heinz Flieger, Düsseldorf)
  • Deutsche Industrieverlags-GmbH, Cologne

Book title

  • The suspension railway, edited by Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG, by Kurt Hackenberg, Wuppertal o. J.
  • Waldemar van Wichelkus (Gottfried Walter Dicke): Kiek öwer'n Tuun. Wuppertal 1955, Born-Verlag, 5th edition 1982
  • Business humor, anecdotes, purrs, aphorisms and blooms from business life. Fritz Knapp publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1954, 5th edition 1964
  • With the steering wheel in hand - fun on the go. (Ed. Arthur Westrup), Delius Klasing Verlag 1989

Publications of posters in international yearbooks

  • modern publicity, UK
  • International Poster Annual, Switzerland
  • graphis, Switzerland

Exhibitions

  • Solo exhibition in the "Palette", Wuppertal-Barmen, 1953
  • Art exhibition “Ring Bergischer Künstler, Painting, Graphics, Sculpture”, culture department of the Bayer Leverkusen paint factory, 1958
  • International Biennial of Humor and Satire

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Koob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 11
  2. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 185
  3. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 185
  4. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, pp. 9, 10, 14
  5. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 186
  6. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 186
  7. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 187
  8. ↑ Ludwig Koob - Illustrations-Applied Art, p. 188
personal data
SURNAME Koob, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist and commercial artist, caricaturist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal , Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1993
Place of death Wuppertal , North Rhine-Westphalia