Martin Hoffmann (graphic designer)

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Martin Hoffmann (born October 7, 1948 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German graphic artist.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1967 and working briefly as a technical computer at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , Martin Hoffmann studied mathematics at this university from 1968 to 1970 and then at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 1974 . In addition, from 1972 to 1975 he attended an evening course at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1974 to 1975 he worked at the Graetz print shop in Berlin . From 1975 he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Berlin and from 2008 also in Hamburg . His self-published posters in the GDR from 1980 onwards were printed in the Graetz printing house . From 1975 he was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

In autumn 1981 he was one of the co-founders and later an active participant in the Pankow Peace Circle alongside Ruth and Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz . In January 1990 he was one of the initiators in setting up Amnesty International's work in the GDR and then in the eastern federal states .

From 1991 he expanded his work with book designs , commercial graphics and graphic design and since 2000 with collages . He worked as a designer for the appearance of the books published by Gerhard Wolf Janus press . Hoffmann designed several books by Christa Wolf in the GDR and also after 1990, and numerous exhibitions after 1997.

Martin Hoffmann lives in Berlin and Hamburg.

Exhibitions (selection)

Fonts

  • Peter Böthig (Ed.): Reflexes from paper and shadows. Graphic work, conversation, essays . 1st edition. Janus Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928942-40-9 , pp. 112 .
  • Working people with folding bags (Rheinsberger Bogen 19) . Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum, Rheinsberg 2004, p. 16 .
  • Gerd Lepke, Jutta Seidel, Christa Wolf u. a .: heads spaces . Ed .: Martin Hoffmann. 1st edition. 2011, p. 48 .

literature

  • Marianne Subklew-Jeutner: The Pankower Peace Circle. History of an East Berlin group within the Evangelical Churches in the GDR 1981-1989 . 1st edition. Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-89959-145-3 , p. 402 .
  • Christa Wolf : Walk through Martin Hoffmanns rooms, In: In this country elsewhere: Stories and other texts 1994–1998 . 1st edition. Luchterhand, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-630-86998-X , p. 222 .
  • Christa Wolf: Heads - A conversation with Martin Hoffmann . In: Speak that I see you. Essays, speeches, conversations . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-42313-4 , p. 147-152 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Hoffmann: It wasn't about being right . In: Marianne Subklew (Ed.): I became more courageous. The Pankower Peace Circle - political self-assertion and public contradiction . Exhibition catalog (texts: Marianne Subklew, design: Martin Hoffmann). Berlin 2003 (revised 2009), pp. 100–101
  2. ↑ Marlies Quantity : From my notebook - The club fever is rampant . In: Die Zeit , No. 22/1990
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)