Theo Ballmer

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Theophil Ballmer-Suter (1902–1965) lithographer, graphic artist, photographer, head of the writing, graphics and photography class at the Basel School of Applied Arts. Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Theo Ballmer , actually Auguste Théophile Ballmer (born September 29, 1902 in Lausanne , † December 10, 1965 in Basel ), was a Swiss lithographer , graphic artist and photographer .

Life

Theo Ballmer was the son of August Theophil, decorative painter, and Judith geb. Rey. In 1935 he married Verena Marguerite Suter. After his apprenticeship with a Basel lithographer and his training at the Zurich School of Applied Arts , among others with Walter Käch and Ernst Keller , Theo Ballmer was employed as a graphic designer by the Hoffmann-La Roche company in 1926 . From 1929 to 1930 he studied at the Bauhaus Dessau School of Design in Dessau-Roßlau . After returning to Switzerland, he became head of the writing, graphics and photography class at the Basel School of Applied Arts, where he was a professor until 1965.

Theo Ballmer designed

  • Orientation and information systems for Basel, Bern, Lucerne, Speyer and for Bremen (pedestrians)
  • In Zurich, Munich Bielefeld, (local public transport)
  • In Frankfurt (airport),
  • For Novartis and Ciba Specialty Chemicals (plant) HP9 / 98.
  • Ballmer is particularly known for his posters. During the 1920s and 1930s he designed many advertising and political posters that are recognized as the first manifestations of modernism in graphics. But Ballmer's drawings and photographs are also strongly based on modernism. Ballmer has also designed his own printing sets.

literature

  • Charlotte Fergg-Frowein (ed.): Kürschner's graphic artist's manual. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Graphic artists, illustrators, caricaturists, commercial artists, typographers, book designers. De Gruyter, Berlin 1959, p. 8.
  • General artist lexicon: Bio-bibliographical index A – Z. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-23911-4 , Vol. 1, p. 539.

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personal data
SURNAME Ballmer, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ballmer, Auguste Théophile (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic artist, lithographer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1965
Place of death Basel