Renate Tost

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Script samples (1987) of the original school font and its variants: equal stroke italic (lettering form) and antiqua italic ( school script italic )

Renate Tost (born September 22, 1937 in Breslau , Province of Lower Silesia ) is a German calligrapher , type artist and specialist author. She developed the basis for a new school typeface and made a significant contribution to the profiling of writing lessons in elementary school as well as to typeface design in art education in the GDR .

Life

Renate Tost studied from 1955 to 1960, among others with Albert Kapr , calligraphy at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig . In collaboration with Elisabeth Kaestner from the Institute for Teacher Training in Radebeul , she worked out the basis for a new school publication, which was introduced in 1968 in the general polytechnic secondary schools of the GDR. In 1975 she received her doctorate at the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig . As part of her subsequent teaching activity at the “Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander” University of Education in Dresden , in the field of art education , Tost dealt with the art of writing and books, for example. Works from the work of the visual artist Renate Tost can be seen in the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and the German National Library (DNB). Further works can be found in the collection of the Klingspor Museum . In 2011, Renate Tost left eight calligraphic offset and screen prints to the Klingspor Museum to supplement the existing works.

Works (selection)

  • The writing in school. A contribution to the perspective of writing education in the general polytechnic high school. Institute for Book Design, Leipzig 1968, OCLC 314528573 .
  • Investigations into some fundamental aspects of handwriting design in the general polytechnic high school with special consideration of the school font italic. Dissertation. Leipzig 1975, OCLC 74395388 .
  • The school font in italics. In: Robert Kuhn (ed.): Font design, writings for art education. Volume 22, Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1971, pp. 46–60.
  • with Elisabeth Kaestner: The school exit script in practice. In: Sprachpflege: magazine for good German. No. 7, 1969, pp. 143-145, pedocs.de (2,682 kB).
  • with Elisabeth Kaestner: writing lessons. in: Methodology of German Lessons in Lower Schools. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1977, OCLC 74349603 .
  • Albert Kapr (Ed.): Calligraphic Expressions. About calligraphy in the German Democratic Republic. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig 1988, ISBN 978-3-343-00461-4 , pp. 133-142
  • From the charm of the norm. Style features of the original school font . In: The primary school magazine. Vol. 57, 1992, pp. 8-10, pedocs.de (2,643 kB).
    • Calligraphy and other works on paper . (CD-ROM). Dresden 2004.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Ursula Bredel , Hartmut Günther (ed.): Orthography theory and spelling lessons. Volume 509 of Linguistic Works, Walter de Gruyter 2006, ISBN 3-11-092119-7 .
  • Walter Bergner: Typographic experiments on Karl Marx. In: Paper and Printing (1982) 8, VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, p. 126 f.
  • Walter Bergner: Well-founded promotion of the written culture. To the efforts of the Leipzig Institute for Book Art for school writing and calligraphy. Special print from: Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte, 7, 1997, ISBN 3-447-03938-8 , pp. 223–244.
  • Julia Blume, Fred Smeijers: A Century of Writing and Writing Lessons in Leipzig. University of Graphics and Book Art Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-932865-57-2 , pp. 185–187 u. P. 271.
  • Helgard Sauer: Renate Tost - Striving for calligraphy. In: Neue Werbung H. 4/1987, 34th year, Verlag die Wirtschaft Berlin, pp. 16-19.
  • Sylvia Werfel: After 1945: The Leipzig School. In: Roots and Wings. Calligraphy by Katharina Pieper 1982 to 2012. Homburg: Pieper-Ed., ISBN 978-3-00-038049-5 , p. 39.
  • Tom Gourdie: Handwriting for Today. London 1971, ISBN 978-0-273-43920-2 , p. 49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Bredel, Hartmut Günther: Orthography theory and spelling lessons. P. 38.
  2. ↑ a b Renate Tost: From the original school font to calligraphy and scriptural gestures ( Memento from June 24, 2017)
  3. ↑ On scripts and politics . In: The time . No. 34 , 23 Aug 1968 ( online ).
  4. ↑ The head as an interface. State Office of Saxony (LDS), January 26, 2009, accessed on September 16, 2013 (press release).
  5. ↑ Donation of calligraphic works by Dr. Renate Tost ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), offenbach.de, June 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "Faces and Heads" - works on paper by Renate Tost and sculptures by Hans-Volker Mixsa. Retrieved July 2, 2016 .
  7. ^ Exhibition: Type Art and Press Illustrations. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, August 30, 2007, accessed on July 2, 2016 (press release).
  8. ↑ Tillich presents the Saxon Order of Merit , accessed on June 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tost, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German calligrapher, typographer, author and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Lower Silesia Province