Walter Breker

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Walter Breker (born April 2, 1904 in Bielefeld , † September 16, 1980 in Olsberg ) was a German commercial artist .

Life

After training as a lithographer from 1918 to 1922, Breker studied at the Bielefeld School of Applied Arts from 1922 to 1925 . In the next few years he worked as a graphic designer for various printing companies, for example for the companies Förster & Borries in Zwickau and Hartung & Co. in Hamburg. From 1928 to 1932 he was artistic director of the Albert Wohlfeld book printing company in Magdeburg and then tutor with Wilhelm Deffke at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . From 1934 to 1954 he worked as head of the department for graphics and book art at the Krefeld Werkkunstschule. In 1954 a new phase began: Walter Breker became professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and head of the class for commercial graphics. He held this office until 1969. Under his aegis, the photography department was expanded from 1951 to 1961 with the help of his then student Hilla Wobeser .

In parallel to his teaching activities, Breker was always active as a freelancer. He created posters, advertising, catalogs and book designs for the world exhibition in Brussels (1958), for the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , for the Düsseldorf University and Music Weeks. But he also created logos for various companies such as the Frankfurter Messe , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung or Erdal -schuhcreme. He was also the artistic director of the fashion magazine Pfau-Moden. Breker's main field of activity was always typography .

From 1951, Breker was chairman of the Düsseldorf-Niederrhein local group of the Federation of German Graphic Artists (BDG), and in 1956 he was accepted into the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), a graphic artists' association founded in Paris in 1952.

Walter Breker died in Olsberg in 1980 at the age of 77. A large part of his estate is in Offenbach's Klingspor Museum .

Works (selection)

Posters

  • Aquarium Düsseldorf in the bunker at the zoo (1948)
  • 2 Billion Years of Earth Events, Löbbecke Museum Düsseldorf (1955)
  • Kiel Week (1960)
  • Theater poster for: Gerhart Hauptmann, Before Sunset, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (1962)
  • Spirit and Matter - University Week, Düsseldorf (1964)
  • University Reform - University Week, Düsseldorf (1965)
  • Applied graphics, Kunsthalle Bremen (1967)
  • International radio exhibition Berlin (1971)
Coat of arms of the city of Willich

Graphic design

  • The funny ABC of birds. (26 original screen prints)
  • The sun can shine on a thistle for hours, but it won't turn into a rose. Vernacular. (Original color screen print)
  • Vogelwolke (original lithograph)
  • World Exhibition Brussels - Expo 58 , illustrated book Germany
  • Coat of arms of the city of Willich (1971)
  • Gutehoffnungshütte in two centuries, Oberhausen (1958)
  • Building with Aluminum, German Aluminum Center, Düsseldorf (1971)
  • Peacock Fashions (Peacock Fashions)

Exhibitions

  • 1938: Museum of Writing, Berlin
  • 1960: Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a. M.
  • 1963: Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
  • 1967: Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven
  • 1972: Klingspor Museum, Offenbach a. M.
  • 1973: Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
  • 1980: Museum Folkwang, Essen

Collections

literature

  • Walter Breker . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 98.
  • Walter Breker: Living for Art. Pictures from the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf. College of Fine Arts. Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1960.
  • Klaus Popitz, Hans Peter Willberg (eds.): Walter Breker, brands and "brands": Walter Breker and commercial graphics 1904–1980. Mann, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-7861-1415-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helga Meister: Photography in Düsseldorf. The scene in profile . Schwann in Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 165 ff.
  2. ^ Verena Krebs: Photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Past and present . Master's thesis at the Ruhr University Bochum (art history), 2005, ISBN 978-3-63841-431-9 , chap. 2
  3. ↑ Short biography on Walter Breker in the Klingspor Museum (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Breker, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1980
Place of death Olsberg