Uwe Loesch
Uwe Loesch (born January 23, 1943 in Dresden ) is a German graphic designer and university professor. He is considered one of the leading international poster artists .
Live and act
Loesch has lived in Düsseldorf since 1958 and studied graphic design at the Peter-Behrens-Werkkunstschule (today Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences ). After completing his studies, he began to work as a freelance graphic designer and had his own studio in Düsseldorf. Among his regular clients were the Kom (m) ödchen in Düsseldorf and the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main . Since 1984, many of his works have been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York.
In 1985 he became professor of design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences; from 1990 he was professor for communication design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as successor to Willy Fleckhaus. In addition to poster design, the focus of his work is on the conception, text and corporate design for appearances by clients from culture and business. In 2008 he finished his work as a lecturer at the Bergische Universität.
He has received numerous international awards. Loesch is a member of the AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale and the ADC Art Directors Club of Germany . He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
In 2009 he was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig . In 2013 he received the renowned design award of the Federal Republic of Germany for his life's work .
Exhibitions
- 1991: The place, the time and the point: posters by Uwe Loesch. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Frankfurt am Main
- 1994: Posters by Uwe Loesch. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1997: Time lapse, calendar and calendar by Uwe Loesch. Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt am Main
- 1998: Art, Art: Over the Cross. From sign to badge. Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt am Main
- 2000: A dios, 2000 - God in the picture = A dios, 2000 - God in the picture Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main
- 2004: Uwe Loesch Polis - Political poster art. Weimar Art Gallery, Weimar
- 2010: period. Poster design by Uwe Loesch. German poster museum in the Folkwang Museum , Essen
Publications
- Nonetheless. Posters Schmidt, Mainz 1997
- Cross. From sign to badge. Schmidt, Mainz 1998
- ggg books 55. ginza graphic gallery, Tokyo 2002
- Uwe Loesch & students. China Youth Press, Beijing 2004, ISBN 7-5006-5665-3 .
literature
- Edition Folkwang: Point. Poster design by Uwe Loesch. Steidl, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86930-092-4 .
- Kirk Varnedoe , Paola Antonelli , Joshua Siegel: Modern contemporary: art since 1980 at MoMA . The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004, ISBN 0-87070-491-5 , p. 56 f.
- Peter Zec: Who's who in design. Volume 2. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-89986-002-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Uwe Loesch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personal website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Gerber, Anja Lutz: Influences: a lexicon of contemporary graphic design. Die Gestalten Verlag , 2006, p. 288.
- ^ Website of the Museum od Modern Art, New York
- ↑ Biographical data on the museum platform NRW ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lösch was with numerous
- ↑ Gutenberg Prize 2009 for typographer Uwe Loesch ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Design Prize 2013 for Prof. Uwe Loesch on uni-wuppertal.de, accessed on October 12, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loesch, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic artist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |