Paul Hulliger

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Paul Hulliger (born September 27, 1887 in Grafenried , canton Bern , † August 24, 1969 in Riehen , canton Basel-Stadt , resident in Basel , Heimiswil and Riehen) was a Swiss teacher , writing and drawing teacher , type designer and graphic artist .

life and work

Paul Hulliger was the son of the teacher Andreas and the teacher Maria, née Gutknecht. From 1903 to 1907 he attended the Hofwil teacher training college , where he a. a. from artist Emil Prohaska (1874-1948) and from singing and music teacher Hans Klee , the father of Paul Klee , was taught.

During his seminar time, Hulliger drew and painted fifty old Bernese pub signs , some with ink and pen and some with tempera paint . The Basler National-Zeitung paid tribute to this ethnologically and artistically valuable work under the title With Wirtshausschildern zum Lehramt .

Hulliger taught for several years as a primary school teacher in Zollikofen . From 1912 to 1913 he studied at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern and obtained his diploma as a secondary teacher. After further studies in Munich , Zurich , Basel and Bern, Hulliger also obtained a drawing teaching diploma. Educationally, it was shaped by Georg Kerschensteiner's work The Development of the Drawing Talent of the Child.

Hulliger married Maria Hostettler in 1916 and entered the Basel school service, where he taught at the Basel girls' secondary school until 1925. At the school, from 1919 on, he headed the experimental class for reforming the teaching of writing. From 1921 to 1925, Hulliger taught courses at the drawing teacher seminar as head of methodology and in 1927 he was second married to Elise, née Müller.

In ten years of preparatory work, Hulliger created the "Hulliger font". This was introduced in 1926 by the Basel Education Department in the schools of the canton of Basel-Stadt and declared a Swiss school typeface in 1936 and used in ten other cantons. Similar to Ludwig Sütterlin for the Prussian schools, Hulliger had designed a handwriting form adapted to Swiss conditions for schools and commercial professions and the associated method for writing lessons. A few years later, the Swiss and a Basel city commission, to which both Hulliger belonged, again dealt with written reforms, whose ideas are finally so far removed from Hulliger's original concept that he could no longer identify with them. In 1947, after more than twenty years, the "Hulliger script" was abolished in Basel schools.

From 1925 to 1953, Hulliger worked as a writing and drawing teacher at the teachers' seminar in Basel. He lived with his family in Riehen from 1933 until his death. There he was an SP member from 1945 to 1958 in the local council and wrote articles for the yearbook z'Rieche for six years .

As a teacher at the cantonal teachers' seminar, Hulliger was able to pass on his pedagogical skills in developing good handwriting. Stimulated by the drawings of his five children, he became interested in children's drawings as an expression of psychological and intellectual development and published numerous publications on his observations and the knowledge gained from them. Quote: "In the drawing, the adolescent person deals with his environment step by step with great consistency, whereby the color can be understood as an expression of feeling."

For many years Hulliger belonged to the Swiss Werkbund and was the founder of the “Werkgemeinschaft für Schrift und Schrift” (1927), the “Drawing Teachers Association” (1932) and co-founder of the Riehen subgroup of the Basel Heimatschutz (1951).

In the last years of his life, Hulliger mainly dealt with the remaining witnesses to rural and artisanal ways of life from his immediate vicinity. Hulliger wanted to accommodate the diverse collection that had come together through his years of collecting for a planned village museum in his adopted home Riehen, but this did not materialize during his lifetime.

literature

  • AH: Obituary for Paul Hulliger. In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre: architecture et art, Vol. 56, 1969, p. 864 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Krattiger : Paul Hulliger - artist and fighter. In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche, 1987. ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edition of August 3, 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Hulliger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss teachers, writing and drawing teachers, type designers and graphic artists
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Grafenried , Canton of Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1969
Place of death Riehen , Canton of Basel-Stadt