Martin Kausche

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Martin Kausche (born April 7, 1915 in Stettin ; † February 12, 2007 in Worpswede ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Born the son of a businessman, Kausche graduated from the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in his hometown of Stettin in 1933 . At the grammar school the painter Otto Lang-Wollin was his art teacher. Furthermore thimble attended evening classes at the School of Applied Arts Szczecin . Then Kausche studied in 1934/1935 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts under Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler , then from 1936 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts Berlin . After the Reich Labor Service and a study trip to Italy, he lived as a freelance artist in Stettin from 1938. During the Second World War he worked for the Todt Organization from 1941 . In January 1945 he married the book illustrator and author Eva Kausche-Kongsbak (* 1918; † 2010) in Tyrol .

After the Second World War and the loss of his homeland, he and his wife settled in Worpswede in the summer of 1945 , where he lived and worked until his death. One of his first commissions was the design of the headline for the daily newspaper Weser-Kurier , newly founded by Hans Hackmack in the neighboring city of Bremen , which appeared for the first time on September 19, 1945. Kausche placed a seal point between “Weser” and “Kurier” in the newspaper title , using the large Bremen city seal of 1366 as a basis, and used the classic Antiqua as a font .

In the 1950s and 1960s he made a name for himself as a designer of book covers . Among other things, he had a decisive influence on the appearance of S. Fischer Verlag . In 2004 the anniversary edition of Thomas Mann's Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull was reissued in the original design from 1954. During this time he also designed the dust jackets for well-known Brockhaus and Kindler encyclopedias .

Font mosaic, designed in 1954

In 1954 he designed the typeface Mosaik for the Stempel type foundry, which was edited in 2005 by a Canadian manufacturer and reissued in digital form under the name Sultan .

Kausche was a co-founder and long-time chairman of the Atelierhaus Worpswede e. V., who maintains artist houses in Worpswede, in which guest artists have work rooms and studios available. On the occasion of his 90th birthday on April 7, 2005, the scholarship holder, which has been part of the Worpsweder Künstlerhäuser for ten years , was renamed “Martin Kausche Ateliers”.

Honors

literature

  • Helene Will-Beuermann and Carl Will: Colorful world. A primer. With pictures by Eva Kausche-Kongsbak and Martin Kausche. Ellermann, Hamburg 1948/1949
  • Association of Worpsweder artists and art lovers (ed.): Martin Kausche: painter, graphic artist, Worpsweder. Catalog for the 80th birthday exhibition in the Altes Rathaus gallery , Worpswede. o. O. (Lilienthal): Worpsweder Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-89299-177-4
  • (We) artists in and around Worpswede. Graphics - painting - object - sculpture. Artists: Hans Bock, Andrea Braig, M. Breustedt, HJ Burmeister , Bryan Ingham, Eva Kausche-Kongsbak , M. Kausche, Ms. Migge u. a.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 272-274.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Martin Kausche in: Worpswede in photos and documents , by Karl Veit Riedel, Atelier Im Bauernhaus, 1988, page 61
  2. ↑ Alexandra Albrecht: Between Weser and Courier. Martin Kausche designed the seal point in 1945 . In: Weser courier . September 18, 2015, p. W 31 .
personal data
SURNAME Thimble, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2007
Place of death Worpswede