Sigmund von Weech

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Sigmund Franz Xaver Wilhelm Otto von Weech (born May 26, 1888 in Landsberg am Lech ; † September 27, 1982 in Munich ) was a German graphic artist and textile artist and entrepreneur .

Life

State seal of the German Reich, 1921. Weech's design has been used as a federal seal and for other functions since 1950.

Von Weech, son of Bavarian Major General Karl Sigmund von Weech (1844–1932) and his wife Franziska, née Bauer (1852–1914), studied architecture at the Royal Bavarian Technical University in Munich and graphics at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich under Julius Diez . From 1912 he worked as an assistant, later as a teacher for interior design and drawing in the architecture department of the Technical University of Munich. Together with the type artist Rudolf Koch , he delivered drafts for an imperial eagle for the state coat of arms of the German Empire on behalf of the Reichskunstwarts Edwin Redslob in 1921 , which was looking for a new form for state symbols and emblems during the Weimar Republic . The resulting eagles formed the basis for the state seal of the Weimar Republic and for the standard of the Reich President , also for the eagle of the later federal seal and the eagle in the medallion of the later Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . An eagle design by Weechs, which appeared on postage stamps of the German Reich from 1924 , was further simplified by Karl-Tobias Schwab in 1926 . Schwab's eagle was first included in the official seals of the Reichswehr in 1927 , then in the logo of the German Olympic team and in the national coat of arms of the Weimar Republic in 1928, and in 1950 in the German coat of arms .

In 1920 von Weech and his third wife Angelina (1882–1962), a daughter of the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt and former drama student of Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann , opened a hand-weaving workshop in Schaftlach near Tegernsee , which employed over 100 workers and men -, coat and decoration fabrics as well as blankets, carpets and wall hangings. One of his company's offices was on Odeonsplatz in Munich. In 1925 he had already brought over 700 samples onto the market. Among other things, he made fabrics for tubular steel chairs and armchairs for Hugo Junkers . The surface design of his fabrics was influenced by the design principles of the Bauhaus . In addition to the hand weaving, von Weech ran a workshop for marble mosaics and Scagliola technique. From 1931 to 1943 he was director of the Textile and Fashion School of the City of Berlin (Higher Technical School for Textile and Clothing Industry). In 1948 he went back to Munich, where he opened a studio for decorative textiles. In the 1950s and 1960s he wrote non-fiction books for draftsmen and graphic artists for the Muster-Schmidt-Verlag in Göttingen . Several times traveled from Weech to Japan .

Works (selection)

Definitive Imperial Eagle (10 Pfennig) , 1924

Graphics, state symbols, decorations

Fonts

  • Craft and machine in weaving , 1933 ( digitized )
  • How to draw flowers , 1951
  • with Christian Gecks: How do I draw geometric patterns , 1959
  • How do I write script , 1961
  • with Charlotte von Weech: topographical drawings, explanations of pictures and sketches from Turkey , 1973

literature

  • Eleon von Rommel: hand weaving by Sigmund von Weech . In: Die Kunst , March 1931, p. 152
  • Eberhard Hölscher: Sigmund von Weech. Drafts, graphics, textiles . Berlin, 1941
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Volume 5, Leipzig 1961, p. 94
  • Helmut Thiel: Sigmund von Weech. Portrait of a Bavarian postage stamp artist . In: Archives for Postal History in Bavaria , 1973, p. 28 ff.
  • Hans Wichmann (Ed.): From Morris to Memphis. Textiles from the New Collection. Late 19th to late 20th century . Volume 3 of the collection catalogs of the Neue Sammlung, Springer Basel AG, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-0348-6386-5 , p. 451

Web links

Commons : Sigmund von Weech  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other information, von Weech died in Wildbad Kreuth - cf. Web links, genealogical data sheets
  2. ^ Jürgen Hartmann : The federal eagle . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Volume 56 (2008), Issue 3, p. 500 ( PDF )
  3. ↑ Christian Welzbacher: The state architecture of the Weimar Republic . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-936872-62-0 , p. 68 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Jürgen Hartmann, p. 501
  5. ↑ Jürgen Hartmann, p. 502
  6. ^ Matthias Funke: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1951 - today . Chapter 1.2, website in the 1951.staatssymbole.de portal , accessed on July 12, 2016
  7. ^ Claudia Selheim: The specialist class for textile professions . In: Andreas Beaugrand, Gerhard Renda (Hrsg.): Werkkunst. Art and design in Bielefeld 1907–2007 . Writings of the Bielefeld Historical Museums, Volume 25, Bielefeld 2007, p. 278 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Weech, Sigmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weech, Sigmund Franz Xaver Wilhelm Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist as well as textile artist and textile entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1982
Place of death Munich