Paul Urban (graphic designer)
Paul Urban (born November 14, 1901 in Munich , † probably 1937 in Moscow ) was a German graphic artist . His name also appears in the form 'Paul L. Urban'.
Life
Paulus Ludwig Alois Urban was born the son of a postal worker. In 1918 he was accepted at the Munich School of Applied Arts . From 1927 to 1933 he worked as a graphic artist in Berlin . In 1933 he fled to the Netherlands via Paris . He worked as a cover designer for Querido Verlag (Paris) and for Allert de Lange Verlag in Amsterdam . In autumn 1936 he emigrated to the Soviet Union and took up quarters in the Moscow Hotel National . There is no more news of him after the summer of 1937.
Works (selection)
- Walter Mehring : Nazi leaders look at you . Paris: Ed. du Carrefour, 1934
- Egon Erwin Kisch : Stories from Seven Ghettos . Amsterdam: Allert de Lange , 1934
- Ruth Rewald : Janko, the boy from Mexico . Strasbourg: Sebastian Brant, 1934
- Hans Flesch-Brunningen : Alkibiades . Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1936
- Irmgard Keun : The girl the children weren't allowed to associate with . Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1936
literature
- Kurt Löb , Exile Figures. German book designers in the Netherlands 1931-1950 , 1994, dissertation University of Amsterdam , Gouda Quint, Arnhem, 1995, ISBN 9038702671
- Astrid Fernengel: Children's literature in exile . Tectum, Marburg, 2008, Diss. TU Berlin 2006
- Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933-1950. Biographies and Bibliographies . Munich: Saur, 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5 , pp. 251f.
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urban, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow |