Rudolf Blanckertz Writing Museum
The Rudolf Blanckertz Museum of Writing was a private design museum with a focus on graphics in Berlin that existed from 1926 to the 1940s.
history
Rudolf Blanckertz , co-founder of the first German steel spring factory Heintze & Blanckertz , opened a museum in his factory building in 1898 called the Script Museum . A visit was possible with prior registration. The collection comprised around 1100 objects, including graphics and manuscripts from the first advanced cultures to modern times, with the focus of the exhibits on graphic design. It was located at Georgenkirchstrasse 44 near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. A large part of the exhibits were lost during the Second World War and in the post-war period. The museum set up the exhibition Technology of Writing in the Deutsches Museum .
After 1945 the company Heintze & Blanckertz was relocated to Frankfurt am Main due to expropriation and the majority of the museum's collection was sold to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. Since then it has been listed as the Blanckertz Collection .
Exhibitions (selection)
- The writing of the Germans, May 19 to June 14, 1935
- Rudolf Koch memorial exhibition, 1935
- The type artist Emil Rudolf Weiß , November 1935 to January 1936
- Font and design, 1936
- Writing at the Offenbach School of Applied Arts , 1936
- Font and design in England, 1936. With lectures by E. Hölscher and Anna Simons
- Johannes Boehland , 1938
- Otto Hupp , the work of a German artist, April 24 to June 30, 1939
Web links
- Publications from and about the Rudolf Blanckertz Museum of Writing in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Sights> Museums> Writing Museum (middle column, bottom) . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, II, p. 315.
- ^ H. Pattenhausen: Johannes Boehland. Exhibition in the writing museum Blanckertz . In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 17, 1938 ( willgrohmann.de [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 32.2 ″ E