Pirckheimer Society
The Pirckheimer Society is an association of bibliophiles , graphics - and bookplate -Sammlern. It was named after the founder of bibliophilia, the Renaissance scholar and humanist Willibald Pirckheimer . It has set itself the task of familiarizing members and the public with works of book art and graphics, promoting and supporting the collection of beautiful and valuable books, graphics and bookplates, as well as contributing to the development of the graphic arts and maintaining bookplates.
It was founded on January 29, 1956 in Berlin and until its dissolution belonged to the Kulturbund of the GDR , making it the youngest of the three bibliophile associations ( Maximilian Society , Society of Bibliophiles ) that are nationwide active in Germany.
Founding members are Bruno Kaiser , director of the library of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute at the Central Committee of the SED , Heinrich Löwenthal , chief judge at the Supreme Court of the GDR, IM Lange , chief editor in the Volk und Wissen Verlag Berlin, Werner Klemke , book artist and later Professor at the University of Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee, the financial scientist Ernst Kaemmel , the writers Arnold Zweig , Louis Fürnberg and Johannes Bobrowski , the type artist Albert Kapr , the children's book publisher Alfred Holz , the old publishers Heinrich FS Bachmair and Wieland Herzfelde , the economist Jürgen Kuczynski and the General Director of the German State Library Horst Kunze .
The society is subdivided (2009) into the regional groups Berlin-Brandenburg , Halle / Saale , Neubrandenburg , Neustrelitz , Thuringia and Rhein-Main-Neckar , as well as the existing Leipzig Bibliophile Evening eV The association of bibliophiles and graphic friends Magdeburg and Saxony -Anhalt eV "Willibald Pirckheimer" is not affiliated with the Pirckheimer Society. Independent of the Pirckheimer Society as a bibliophile association, there is the Willibald Pirckheimer Society eV , a society for research into Renaissance and humanism.
Four times a year, the society publishes "MARGINALIEN", currently the only German magazine for book art and bibliophilia that is equipped with a typographical supplement and for members a limited, often signed, original graphic.
The “Pirckheimers” organize regular club evenings and annual meetings.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ nowadays Pirckheimer-Gesellschaft e. V.
- ↑ http://www.leipziger-bibliophilen-abend.de
- ^ Association of graphic designers of the GDR and Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs: P40. Posters from the GDR , Berlin 1990, p. 187, ISBN 978-3-8758-5184-7 .