Max Waibel (graphic designer)

Max Waibel (* 1903 ; † 1979 ) was a German graphic artist and painter who was best known as a printer .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a typesetter and lithographer , he studied with Albert Windisch , Heinrich Hoffmeister and Rudolf Koch . He then worked at the Bauer foundry in Frankfurt alongside Heinrich Jost , who was the artistic director there. Waibel brought out the Waibel press prints together with Günter Dörr, on which Gerhart Kraaz also worked. From the 1950s to 1969 he was a teacher at the Gutenberg vocational school in Frankfurt, at which time Alf Bayrle also taught there .

Works

• alpha, only one vowel: the letter A in the change of beautiful forms from antiquity to the present with the words of the Evangelist John (chapters 1-10, verses 1-30). Hans Adolf Halbey, Max Waibel (eds.), Friends of the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main 1961
• Brands, signs, bookplates. Waibel-Pressdrucke-GmbH, Offenbach am Main 1979
• Frankfurt am Main: in troubled days between d. Empire and Weimar Republic. Waibel-Pressdrucke-GmbH, Offenbach am Main 1979

Web link

• Max Weibel Short biography from the Klingspor Museum Offenbach (PDF file; 527 kB)