Willy Pingel
Willy Ernst Albert Pingel (born December 14, 1907 in Malchow ; † June 26, 1994 in Heidelberg ) was a German art bookbinder .
Life
Willy Pingel was a son of the postal assistant Johann Joachim Friedrich Pingel in Malchow; the art teacher and painter Friedrich-Franz Pingel was his older brother. After an apprenticeship in bookbinding in Malchow, Pingel attended the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig and the Higher Graphic School in Berlin in 1934/35 . In 1935 he passed the master's examination as a bookbinder in Leipzig . He worked in Leipzig until the end of the Second World War, then he moved his workshop to Heidelberg. In Heidelberg, Pingel was naturally active in the university environment. However, his big customers included publishers such as Insel Verlag , first in Leipzig, then in Wiesbaden, or S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt am Main and the Munich publishers Hanser and Prestel .
He created leather-bound classic editions for the Leipziger Insel-Verlag and mainly devoted himself to editions in small editions with precious bindings, such as Albrecht Dürer's Apocalypse and Eike von Repgau's Heidelberg Illuminated Manuscript of the Saxon Mirror . 58 of his books were awarded in the competition The Most Beautiful German Books . At the International Book Exhibition in 1977 he received a gold medal for the Passover Haggadah in Darmstadt .
literature
- Pingel, Willy Ernst Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 349 .
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7593 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pingel, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pingel, Willy Ernst Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art bookbinder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malchow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1994 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |