Rosmarie Tissi

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Rosmarie Tissi (born February 13, 1937 in Thayngen , Switzerland ) is a Swiss graphic artist .

Live and act

Rosmarie Tissi began her apprenticeship in 1953 at the Zurich School of Applied Arts , but decided after a year for a four-year apprenticeship. From 1958 Rosmarie Tissi worked for Siegfried Odermatt , with whom she founded a studio community in Zurich in 1968 . The working method of Odermatt & Tissi provides for exchange and criticism, but rarely for joint projects, so the work can usually be clearly assigned to one of the two.

Rosmarie Tissi taught a. a. at Yale University , gave workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia , Elisava in Barcelona and Tongji University in Shanghai . In 1957 some of her work was published in the journal Schweizer Neue Grafik , in 1974 she was one of the first women to join the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) . In 1976 she won first prize at the 11th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, and in 1992 she was accepted into the Art Directors Club . In 2018 she received the Swiss Grand Prix Design. She also gives workshops on a regular basis. In an interview, she notes that as a teacher, she found that women often perform better in training, but then "disappear"; few would make a name for themselves.

Works

Tissi's work has been exhibited internationally, including a. in New York ; The Winterthur Trade Museum devoted an extensive solo exhibition to the designers in 2009. Numerous works can be found in collections such as those of the Neue Sammlung Munich , the Poster Museum Essen , the MoMA , the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and the Library of Congress .

Exhibitions

  • Visual Graphics Gallery, New York 1966
  • University of Design, Offenbach am Main, 1984
  • Warsaw Poster Museum, 1988
  • Reinhold Brown Gallery Tokyo, 1992
  • German Poster Museum, Essen, 1996
  • Ginza Graphic Gallery Tokyo, 1998
  • Winterthur Trade Museum, 2009
  • Kulturzentrum Sternen, Thayngen, 2013
  • Pratt Gallery, New York, 2018

reception

Rosmarie Tissi is one of the few graphic designers who made a name for themselves early on in poster design and developed their own style. She belongs to the generation of designers who resisted the restrictive severity of Swiss style without fundamentally rejecting modernity, clarity and reduction. Her works use the grid flexibly, imaginatively and playfully, are color-intensive and often have an illustrative approach. Characteristic is the concise connection of form and content, in which the image level not only doubles the text level, but expands its message.

literature

  • Siegfried Odermatt / Rosmarie Tissi: Graphic Design. o. O. 1993.
  • FHK Henrion: Top Graphic Design. Zurich 1983.
  • Richard Hollis: Swiss graphics - the development of an international style 1920-1965. Basel / Boston / Berlin 2006
  • Heinke Jenssen: Odermatt & Tissi: Cat, but no Mouse. In: Graphis, 334, 2001.
  • Willy Rotzler: The poster in Switzerland. Schaffhausen 1990.
  • Soupon Design Group (ed.): International Women in Design. New York 1993.
  • Rosmarie Tissi - graphic design. Triest Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-03863-034-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Rosmarie Tissi. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Rosmarie Tissi. Vimeo , accessed December 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Julia Meer: Rosmarie Tissi. Short biography. In: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer (eds.): Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012 . Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 573-574 .
personal data
SURNAME Tissi, Rosmarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Thayngen , Switzerland