Peter Thiele (graphic designer)

Peter Thiele (2007)

Peter Thiele (born October 12, 1938 in Nuremberg ) is a German graphic designer , artist and university professor.

Life

Peter Thiele is the fourth child of the landscape architect Hermann Thiele (1906–2001) from Nuremberg and the twin brother of the landscape architect Gerhard Thiele . A younger brother is also a designer.

He studied graphics at the Folkwang School and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . First he worked as an art teacher in Westphalia, from 1969 teaching at the higher technical college for graphics and advertising in Nuremberg (predecessor of the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nuremberg). In 1977 he received the advancement award of the city of Nuremberg . In 1979 he became a professor at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg , where he taught design theory, printmaking, drawing and illustration.

In 1991, Peter Thiele was visiting professor at the Canberra Institute of Art , Australia.

His works have been exhibited many times at home and abroad. He is a member of the artist group Der Kreis .

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

• thiele , 1977, printed by: H. + G. Walter, Nuremberg
• Examples 2/84 , for the exhibition in the Albrecht Dürer Society Nuremberg, 1984,
• Peter Thiele: New Work , 1994, Verlag H + G Walter, Nuremberg
• Peter Thiele: Bildstaben , 1999, Förster printing company, Sulzbach
• Peter Thiele: Oh if the world ... , Galerie-W , 2017, ISBN 978-3947289-04-2

Quotes

• Every picture changes its face many times - and it's only finished because I stop painting .

Web links

• Materials by and about Peter Thiele (graphic artist) in the documenta archive
• Short biography, entries in: The circle in the forest

proof

1. ^ "Peter Thiele" catalog for the exhibition at the Förster printing company, Sulzbach, July 1999
2. ^ Peter Thiele: New Works, Exhibition Catalog 1994