Walter Tiemann

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Walter Tiemann (before 1911)
Walter Tiemann (1912). Photo: Hugo Erfurth

Walter Tiemann (born January 29, 1876 in Delitzsch ; † September 12, 1951 in Leipzig ) was a German book artist , typographer , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Walter Tiemann was born as the son of the businessman Gustav Tiemann (* 1837) and Albertine Marie. Offenhauer (* 1847) born in Delitzsch. In 1887 the family moved to Leipzig , where Walter Tiemann attended the Royal High School from 1886 to 1893 . In 1894 he began his studies at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig. After two years he moved to Dresden , later a study visit to Paris followed .

In 1897 Tiemann won a poster competition for the Saxon-Thuringian exhibition; In 1903 he returned to the Leipzig Academy as a teacher of the master class for book trade, illustration, free and applied graphics.

In 1905 he came into contact with the Offenbach type foundry Gebr. Klingspor , where all the typefaces designed by Tiemann were published. In 1907 he and his friend Carl Ernst Poeschel founded the Janus-Presse , the first German private press of the book art movement , for which he also designed the font (Janus-Pressen-Schrift).

In the following years, Tiemann advanced to become one of the most sought-after book artists in Germany and was commissioned by numerous publishers to design book covers , titles, vignettes and illustrations. In 1914 the International Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics ( Bugra ) took place in Leipzig , where Walter Tiemann was a member of the jury. The head of the book binding committee was the manufacturer Max Enders, owner of the Leipzig bookbindery EA Enders. In 1911 he set up a manual binding department and hired Walter Tiemann as artistic director. Tiemann held the position until 1924 and was instrumental in the success of the manual binding

Walter Tiemann's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

In 1920 Walter Tiemann became director of the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts and Book Industry. On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1926, he received an honorary doctorate from Leipzig University . Still, the twenties were a difficult time for him. The younger generation no longer recognized the requirements of the established typographers and a conflict arose with the representatives of elementary typography , namely Jan Tschichold , who had previously studied with Tiemann, Hermann Delitsch and Hugo Steiner-Prag .

In 1940 Walter Tiemann went into provisional retirement. In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important commercial graphic artists and draftsmen in August 1944 , which freed him from military service, including on the home front .

After the end of the war, in August 1945, he again took over provisional management of the academy until February 1946.

Walter Tiemann was married to the actress Susanne Wildhagen (1892–1952) since the early 1920s, daughter of the judiciary Georg Wildhagen and the writer Else geb. Friedrich and granddaughter of the writer couple Hermann Friedrich Friedrich and Emmy von Rhoden . Their only child together, their son Johann Christian Tiemann, born in 1923, died in 1945 at the age of 22 during World War II.

plant

Before 1914, Walter Tiemann shaped the image of Insel Verlag (from approx. 1903), Julius Zeitler Verlag (1904–1912), Hyperion Verlag (founded 1906), Kurt Wolff Verlag and Rowohlt Verlag . He also worked for Rütten & Loening in Potsdam, S.Fischer in Frankfurt am Main, Eugen Diederichs in Jena and Albert Langen in Munich. Well-known publishing and magazine logos based on his designs are the 'ERV' logotype of the Rowohlt Verlag (1910), the logos of the magazines Hyperion (1908) and Der Zwiebelfisch (1909), the Hundertdrucke , some series of the Insel-Bücherei u. v. m. Tiemann's designs belong to the transition from the floral Art Nouveau book to the typographic book design that has largely been freed from book decorations . The friendships with the printer's owner Carl Ernst Poeschel and the type foundry operator Karl Klingspor were important.

estate

Part of Walter Tiemann's estate is in the German Museum of Books and Writing in the German National Library in Leipzig.

Directory of the Tiemann publications

  • Janus press script (1907) (in collaboration with Carl Ernst Poeschel)
  • Tiemann Medieval (1906–1909)
  • Tiemann old style in italics (1910–1912)
  • Tiemann fracture (1912-1914)
  • Peter Schlemihl (1912–1914)
  • Narcissus (1915-1921)
  • Tiemann-Gothic (1917-1924)
  • Tiemann Antiqua (1922–1923)
  • Tiemann Antiqua italic (1923–1925)
  • Kleist fracture (1926–1928)
  • Spruce fracture (1933-1935)
  • Orpheus (1926-1928)
  • Daphnis (1928-1929)
  • Orpheus italic (1929–1935)

All fonts were published in the Gebr. Klingspor type foundry, Offenbach.

Walter Tiemann Prize

Since 1992, the Association for the Promotion of Graphics and Printing Art Leipzig eV has been awarding the Walter Tiemann Prize every two years (every even year). From the information text of the association:

The award primarily honors the design work of typographers and illustrators. The competition is aimed at those who create innovation spaces outside of the established publishing houses and who realize their artistic ideas with great commitment.
By examining the possibilities of conveying text and images via electronic media, new approaches also arise for artistic work on the book. Relieved of the function of the pure transfer of knowledge, paths open up for the book in which the specifics of the medium can be consciously examined.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
  2. ^ Large bookbindery EA Enders, Leipzig - Munich. Model companies of the German economy, Volume 6, Die Großbuchbinderei. Berlin, publishing company 'Organization' (S.Hirzel), 1929.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 615.
  4. ↑ Blume, Julia: Tiemann, Walter in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 26 (2017), pp. 266–268
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tiemann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book artist, type designer, typographer, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1951
Place of death Leipzig