Matthias Gubig

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Matthias Gubig (born June 22, 1942 in Dresden ) is a German graphic designer , typographer , book designer and university professor .

life and work

Matthias Gubig is the son of the clerk Dora Gubig and the book reviser Wilhelm Mahn. He fled with his mother in 1945 - after the bombing of Dresden - to Löbau in Upper Lusatia . His father was reported missing on the Eastern Front. From 1959 to 1962 he learned the book printer and later the typesetter trade in the Löbauer Druckhaus and graduated as a typesetter . From 1963 to 1966 he studied at the College of Applied Arts Berlin-Oberschöneweide. He completed his technical college degree as a typographer with Wolfgang Geisler . In 1966 he began his artistic and creative work for theaters, publishers and editorial offices, which continues to this day, especially in the areas of book design , book graphics and posters.

From 1966 to 1972 Gubig taught typographical design at the evening school of the company academy of the printing industry in Berlin, and from 1970 to 1978 design at the Berlin School of Advertising and Design .

In 1975 he passed his diploma as an external student at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art with professors Albert Kapr , Walter Schiller and Gert Wunderlich . From 1984 until his end of service in 2007 he was a lecturer, lecturer and, from 1992, professor for commercial graphics and typography at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

Matthias Gubig told vividly and entertainingly in his book Stehsatz - What I do not want to lay down about his years of apprenticeship in a small printing company in Löbau and about the possibilities and conditions under which books were created in the GDR.

“I first got the smell of printing from ink, paper dust, machine oil and petrol when I entered the small business in my hometown in Upper Lusatia to inquire about an apprenticeship. Before that, I had already tried a room painter because I wanted to learn a trade in which my penchant for drawing and painting would play a role. My mother's career as a house painter was thwarted - it should be something better. So I tried another variant of artistic creation. "

- Matthias Gubig :

Matthias Gubig lives and works in Berlin-Blankenfelde.

In 1965 he married the German illustrator Martha-Luise Gubig, b. Puhlemann (* 1943). They are the parents of the graphic designer Anne Gubig (* 1967).

Awards and collections

His book designs have won several awards since 1977 in the competitions The Most Beautiful Books of the GDR and The Most Beautiful German Books . In 1989 he received the gold medal at the International Book Art Exhibition in Leipzig and in 1997 the bronze medal in the Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World competition . Books designed by him are represented in the collections of the Berlin Art Library , the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg , the Museum van het Boek Den Haag and in private collections.

literature

  • Matthias Gubig: Standing sentence. What I don't want to take off yet. Quodlibet! A book series by Clausen & Bosse. Leak 1995.
  • Matthias Gubig: Book pictures, picture books, illustrators. In: German Library Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and the Book Art Foundation, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig (ed.): The perfect reading machine. From German book design in the 20th century. 1997, ISBN 3-7657-2023-2 .
  • Susanna Partsch : Gubig, Matthias . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 64, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23031-8 , p. 261.
  • Matthias Gubig: Distinctive characters. Craft techniques and forms of writing. In: Anita Kühnel (ed.): World from writing. The 20th century in Europe and the USA. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-888-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Gubig: Standing sentence - What I don't want to put down yet . Clausen & Bosse, Leck 1995, p. 136 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Gubig: Standing sentence - What I don't want to put down yet . Clausen & Bosse, Leck 1995, p. 10 f .
personal data
SURNAME Gubig, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer, typographer, book designer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden