Willi Harwerth

Willi (actually: Wilhelm) Harwerth (born August 4, 1894 in Borby (today Eckernförde ), † January 4, 1982 in Bensheim ) was a German graphic artist and illustrator .

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He studied with Walter Tiemann at the Royal Art Academy and Applied Arts School in Leipzig .

He then worked as a draftsman at the Gebr. Klingspor type foundry in Offenbach , where from 1936 he took over the heraldry , illustration and woodcut classes at the School of Applied Arts .

Harwerth created illustrations and book decorations ( vignettes ) for many fairy tale and song books. He also designed book covers .

Books and illustrations

• Klingspor calendar (1922–1939)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The new Melusine . With 8 illustrations by Willi Harwerth. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag 1922 (1999: Insel-Bücherei 1198 - ISBN 978-3-458-19198-8 )
• Gottfried Keller: Clothes make the man . Vienna, Schroll & Co. ca.1922 (illustrations)
• Rudolf Binding: Chastity legend . Potsdam, Rütten & Loening, 1922
• Viktor von Scheffel: The Hildebrand song , Offenbach, Gerstung, 1923
• Paul Straehle : Southern Germany from above. First episode: Württemberg and Hohenzollern. One hundred pictures from the plane by Paul Straehle . Tübingen, Alexander Fischer 1925 (ceiling design)
• Nobody comes home , Oldenburg, Stalling Verlag 1926
• Animal tales from around the world , retold by Will Vesper. Oldenburg: Stalling, 1928.
• P. Alverdes: The legend of the Christ donkey , Hamburg, Dulk 1953 (woodcuts)
• A nice game played about Ury in the Confederation by Wilhelm Thellen , her farmer and first Eydgenossen . Zurich, Fretz 1926 (woodcuts)
• Christian Morgenstern : Easter fairy tales (from the estate of the poet). Oldenburg, Lappan 1985 (illustrations) - ISBN 3-89082-026-3
• Heinrich Hoffmann : King Nutcracker and poor Reinhold . A children's fairy tale in pictures. Darmstadt-Frankfurt / Main, Rütten & Loening 1951 (461. – 470.)
• In the island library the nature, song and fairy tale books:
  • 1934: The small tree book (IB 316/2)
  • 1936: The Little Herb Book (IB 269/2); 6th edition Frankfurt am Main 1987 (= Insel-Bücherei. Volume 269)
  • 1937: Twenty-five German Christmas carols . Set for two voices by Helmut Walcha . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1937 (1986: IB 1027/2), title drawing and 16 vignettes
  • 1937: The little mushroom book (IB 503 / 1A)
  • 1938: Hans im Glück (IB 530/1, with motifs from Lübeck, among others )

literature

• Edelgard Bühler: nature books, songs, fairy tales. Willi Harwerth (1894-1982) , in: Hans-Eugen Bühler u. a. (Ed.): Insel-Bücherei. Messages for friends. Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1992, number 6, p. 31
• Klaus Harwerth: The book illustrator Willi Harwerth and his love for wood and metal . A lecture given in the Klingspor Museum Offenbach am Main in December 1991. Ed. By the association "Friends of the Klingspor Museum" Offenbach am Main. (= Klingspor Museum, 10th printing) Offenbach am Main; 1994, 28 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Willi Harwerth in the catalog of the German National Library