Nelly Rudin

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Nelly Rudin (born July 11, 1928 in Basel ; † December 4, 2013 in Zurich ) was a Swiss artist and designer.

Life

After finishing school in Basel, Nelly Rudin attended the trade school there from 1947 to 1950 , where she trained as a designer. The graphic designer, who works in Swiss style , worked for the atelier of the Basel pharmaceutical and chemical company JR Geigy AG from 1951 to 1954 .

After coming into contact with the representatives of Concrete Art around Max Bill , she moved to Zurich in 1954, where she worked for three years in the advertising studio jointly run by Ernst A. Heiniger and Josef Müller-Brockmann . In 1957 she set up her own office there. Rudin became known through the posters she designed in 1958 for the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work (SAFFA). She developed a striking design grid based on green geometric shapes, which indicate the development from the earliest civilization to modern women as a sequence of square elements. Rudin's work was voted one of the 100 best posters . The second issue of the magazine Neue Grafik , published in 1959, presents Rudin's work in the category of graphic artists of the new generation . In 1962 she taught at the Biel Arts and Crafts School .

After she kept design as a mainstay in the following years, she decided in 1964 to work entirely as a freelance artist and to devote herself to concrete art . After the first exhibition in 1968 in Galerie 58 in Rapperswil , she showed her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Haus Konstruktiv dedicated a major retrospective to her in 2011/12.

Literature and Sources

  • Richard Hollis: Swiss graphics The development of an international style 1920–1965. Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7267-2 , pp. 162-163, 209, 220, 225, 240, 247, 260.
  • Gerda Breuer , Julia Meer (Ed.): Women in Graphic Design. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 56-57, 537-538.
  • New graphics. Issue 2, 1959 - Illustrations of drafts by Nelly Rudin in the category of graphic designers of the new generation
  • Corporate Diversity - Swiss graphics and advertising for Geigy 1940–1970. Exhibition catalog, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-161-6 .
  • Usage graphics. Vol. 36, Issue 2, 1968, p. 13.
  • Angela Thomas : nelly rudin. In: Galerie Schlégl (ed.): Nelly Rudin (exhibition catalog). Zurich: Galerie Schlégl, 1993, p. 3.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Richard Hollis: Swiss graphics The development of an international style 1920–1965. Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7267-2 , p. 162.
  2. ^ Richard Hollis: Swiss graphics The development of an international style 1920–1965. Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7267-2 , p. 220.
  3. ^ Richard Hollis: Swiss graphics The development of an international style 1920–1965. Birkhäuser, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7643-7267-2 , p. 209.
  4. ↑ Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer (ed.): Women in Graphic Design. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , p. 537.
  5. ↑ NN: nelly rudin “open space”. (PDF) November 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012. (No longer available online.) Haus Konstruktiv, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved December 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haus Konstruktiv.ch
personal data
SURNAME Rudin, Nelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2013
Place of death Zurich