Marie Neurath

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Marie Neurath (born Marie Reidemeister on May 27, 1898 in Braunschweig ; died October 10, 1986 in London ) was a German illustrator.

Life

From 1917 to 1924 Marie Reidemeister studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen , and in 1919 she also attended art school. Shortly before completing her studies, she met Otto Neurath and a short time later went to Vienna to become his assistant, whom she married, at the Social and Economic Museum. In 1934 the institute was closed by the Dollfuss regime and they emigrated to the Netherlands. During the Second World War they managed to escape to Great Britain in 1940 , where they were briefly interned as enemy aliens on the Isle of Man .

Isotype

The name Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) is mostly associated with Otto Neurath , and more and more often with Gerd Arntz , but it was Marie Neurath in particular who was responsible for the contemporary and current popularity of sign language.

The museum in Vienna was founded to convey the city's social reform program to the population - ISOTYPE, an early form of information design, was developed for this purpose. ISOTYPE saw itself as a method of image statistics, which should make scientific connections understandable to the layman. Based on the views of the Vienna Circle , amounts of data were visualized in such a way that they were easy to understand and remember. The amount of data should not only be visualized, but connections should also be shown, thus promoting the democratization of knowledge. Marie Neurath's role was of crucial importance: While Otto Neurath was collecting the information and Gerd Arntz was creating the pictograms and graphics , she played the role of the transformer. It was she who translated information and data into a visual, easy-to-understand form. It was therefore the link between the professionals who provided the knowledge and the graphic artist and viewers to whom the visualization was aimed. Otto Neurath called this position the trustee of the public . Marie Neurath represented the core of the ISOTYPE method, so to speak. It was also she who continued the ISOTYPE Institute in Oxford after Otto Neurath's death in 1945 and who published and translated numerous of his writings - the fact that the name Otto Neurath is so important today is largely due to her commitment.

literature

  • Robin Kinross: The Transformer - Principles of Making Isotype Charts. London 2009
  • Thomas Rurik: ISOTYPE - On the history of the Enlightenment with picture statistics. In: Form + Zweck No. 4 and 5, 1992
  • Michael Twyman: Graphic Communication Through Isotype. Reading 1975
  • Liz McQuiston: Women in Design - A Contemporary View. London 1988
  • Gerda Breuer , Julia Meer (Ed.): Women in Graphic Design. Jovis, Berlin 2012, pp. 520, 521, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 .
  • Christopher Burke / Eric Kindel / Sue Walker (eds.): Isotype: Design and Contexts, 1925–1971. Hyphen Press, 2013, ISBN 9780907259473
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 148f.

Web links

  • CV at Hyphen Press

supporting documents

  1. ^ Liz McQuiston: Women in Design - A Contemporary View. London 1988, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Neurath, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reidemeister, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1986
Place of death London