Wiltraud Jasper

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Wiltraud Jasper (* 1915 in Bochum ; † 1996 ), married name Walter-Jasper , was a German graphic artist and illustrator who was mainly known for her woodcuts and book illustrations. The first name is spelled incorrectly more often than Wiltraut or Wiltrud .

life and work

Wiltraud Jasper was born in Bochum in 1915. She passed her Abitur in Essen and studied from 1937 to 1940 at the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1940 to 1943 with Walter Tiemann and Alfred Finsterer at the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig. Since then she has worked as a freelance graphic artist, since 1946 in Stuttgart and since 1960 in Nuremberg- Altenfurt , and from 1983 back in Stuttgart at the latest.

Works

Jasper is best known for her woodblock prints. Her field of activity includes: book equipment, book illustrations, dust jackets, cover covers, greeting cards, bookplates , magazine covers , calendar pages, fabric prints, designing agricultural educational walking shows and industrial brochures.

At the beginning of her career she was promoted by Eberhard Hölscher (1890–1969). From 1948 to 1965, Hölscher was President of the Federation of German Commercial Graphics (BDG) and until his death publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Nutzgraphik . He dedicated the "hardly yet fledged" artist (and another graphic artist) still at war in 1942 an article in commercial graphics . Ten years later he paid tribute to her again in an article and wrote: “She continued to work in a quiet, tenacious and incessant manner, without making much of herself, and is now one of those very few German artists who can express something really personal through woodcuts have. “For a young artist at the beginning of her career, the trade journal for commercial graphics was an important advertising medium.

Book illustrations

Note: The book titles are sorted by year of publication.

  • Nicolai Gogol : Der Mantel , Stuttgart, Hatje 1947. - From Jasper: Cardboard cover with woodcut vignette, title page in woodcut, 1 vignette on front title, 13 woodcuts in the text.
  • Ursula Schröder: Pipsy. Adventure of a little mouse , Münster in Westphalia, Der Quell 1947. - Pictures by Jasper.
  • Gerhard Schmidt-Gerom: Hand in hand in fairy tale land , Stuttgart, Röhm 1948. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Anton Chekhov : After the theater and other novels , Gauting / Munich, Bavaria 1948. - By Jasper: Softcover with original woodcut, 7 original woodcuts in the text.
  • Kurt Kusenberg : Mr. Crispin rides out and other stories , Münster, Der Quell 1948. - Cover graphic by Jasper.
  • Marcel Schwob : The Children's Crusade. Eine Legende , Lindau, Thorbeke 1949. - By Jasper: 8 woodcuts, 1 of them on the original cover.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The sorcerer's apprentice , Stuttgart, Graphischer Klub 1949. - 1 woodcut by Jasper.
  • Eberhard Benz (editor): The Häseltrog. Legends and stories from Schönbuch and Gäu , Böblingen, Böblinger Bote 1950. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Sophie von Ségur : The Engelwirtshaus , Stuttgart: Schwabenverlag [1951]. - illustrations.
  • Romain Gary : clothes without people. Roman , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1952. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Artur Kern : bim bam beier. A language booklet for the 2nd and 3rd school year , Freiburg im Breisgau 1952. - Illustration of the original cover by Jasper.
  • Walter Bauer : My blue octave book. Poems , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1953. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Archibald Joseph Cronin : The Citadel. Roman , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1953. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Willi Fehse : The blooming laurel. A poet's mirror in stories and anecdotes , Ebenhausen, Wilhelm Langewiesche Brandt 1953. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Charles Nordhoff ; James Hall : Sydney Penal Colony. Roman , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1953. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Elmer Rice : People on Broadway. Novel of a cosmopolitan city , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1953. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Hervey Allen : Antonio Adverso , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1954. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Archibald Joseph Cronin : Lucy Moore. Roman , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1954. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Hans Albitz (collaboration); Ruth Albitz (collaboration): advertising form. [a selection of the best commercial graphics] , Vol. 1–3, Krefeld 1954, 1958, 1961. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Joachim Ringelnatz : And suddenly it's next to you. Collected poems , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1954. - Decor by Jasper.
  • Claude Ullin: The girl from Lebanon , Stuttgart, Schwabenverlag [1955]. - Illustrated dust jacket by Jasper.
  • Hugh Lofting : Doctor Dolittle and his animals , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1956. –Equipment, text illustrations.
  • Margaret Mitchell : Gone with the Wind , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1957. - From Jasper: Equipment, text drawings.
  • Kyra Stromberg : The housed person , Herrenberg, Stuttgarter Gardinenfabrik GmbH. [1957]. - Overall design by Jasper.
  • Lewis Carroll : Alice in Wonderland , Opladen, Middelhauve 1958. - By Jasper: Book cover and cover illustration, 31 text images.
  • Charles De Coster : Thyl Ulenspiegel , Oldenburg, Stalling 1958. - From Jasper: Complete set, cover illustration, approx. 55 drawings.
  • Wolfgang Borchert : Schischyphusch or my uncle's waiter , Stuttgart, Der Druckspiegel [approx. 1959]. - By Jasper: Cardboard cover illustration, text illustration, screen printing on laid paper.
  • Heinrich Böll : The black sheep , Opladen, Middelhauve 1959. - Text drawings by Jasper.
  • Wolfgang Hammarstrand; Nils Gedda: Modernes Deutsch , Stockholm, Bergvall 1959. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Alan Milne : Pooh Bear. Story for children , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1960. - Drawings by Jasper.
  • Gustav Renker : Big mountains, small huts. Experienced and seen , Munich, Bassermann 1960. - Text illustrations by Jasper.
  • Karl Hans Walter; Wiltrud Jasper: Working on the book. Exhibition in the Nuremberg City Library / Egidienplatz 23. Typography and book graphics by Karl Hans Walter. Work by students in the applied graphics department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Illustration and book design by Wiltraud Jasper , Nuremberg 1961, design and illustrations by Jasper.
  • The Chinese Decameron , Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1963. - From Jasper: equipment, linen cover with woodcut, 11 woodcuts in the text.
  • Werner Jetter : memorial book of the Gedächtniskirche. [... designed by Werner Jetter during the construction of the new memorial church in Stuttgart from 1954 to 1957. The woodcuts were created by Wiltraud Walter-Jaspers] , Stuttgart, State Academy of Fine Arts 1963. - Woodcuts by Jasper.
  • Wolfgang Hammarstrand; Julia Rüddel-Engquist: More easy German , Stockholm, Bergvall 1964. - Illustrations by Jasper.
  • Sławomir Mrożek : The March Past , Nuremberg 1968. - 1 double sheet with an illustration by Jasper.
  • Heinrich Böll : The black sheep , Inselbuch 1978, Frankfurt am Main, Insel 1978. - Text drawings by Jasper.

Magazine illustrations

  • The summer garden. Series B, magazine for the upper level of elementary schools. A writing for the parental home 27.1949, No. 9 (May), 28.1949, No. 1 (September). - Envelopes from Jasper.
  • Prisma (Munich) 1.1947, issue 8, page 11, woodcut by Jasper for the poem "Twilight Face" by Horst Lange.
  • Prisma (Munich) 1.1947, issue 19/20, page 24, woodcut by Jasper Das Phantom .

Memberships

Awards

  • 1942: 3rd prize in the competition of the German Society for Goldsmithing e. V. to obtain title pages for jewelry telegrams from the Deutsche Reichspost.
  • 1958: Competition “The Advertising Cover”, selection of the best 50 book covers.

Works in public collections

literature

life and work

  • In Baden-Wurttemberg. Culture, Life, Nature [7.] 1960, August, page 18.
  • Galerie Bauer: Ex-libris. 10,000 bookplates with 1,540 illustrations. Occasional graphics, bookplate literature , printing blocks , Hanover 1983, bookplate pigeon bearers: page 231, entry in the artist directory: 499.
  • Books of good spirit. 30 years Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 1954, book chapters: pages 281, 356, 358, 359, 360, 362.
  • Bookplate art and commercial graphics. Yearbook, Deutsche Exlibris-Gesellschaft 1951, illustration of Doris Fischer ex- libris: page 45, text: pages 50–51.
  • Charlotte Fergg-Frowein: Kürschner's graphic artist manual. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Graphic artists, illustrators, caricaturists, commercial artists, typographers, book designers , Volume 2, Berlin 1967, page 136.
  • Roger M. Gorenflo: Directory of visual artists from 1880 to the present day. A biographical-bibliographical reference work on contemporary art , Volume 2, Rüsselsheim / Main 1988, page 404.
  • Hans A. Halbey: The advertising envelope. Results of a competition . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 30.1959, issue 8, pages 10–19
  • Thomas Theodor Heine: The truth is often improbable , Göttingen 2004, short bio by Eberhard Hölscher: pages 287–288 ( online in the Google book search)
  • Eberhard Hölscher: Competition of the German Society for Goldsmithing e. V. to obtain title pages for jewelry telegrams from the Deutsche Reichspost . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 19.1942, issue 4, pages 22–24.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: woodcuts by Wiltraud Jasper, Lydia Sasulin . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 19.1942, issue 10, pages 25–30.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: Wiltraud Jasper . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 23.1952, issue 3, pages 48–55.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: German Illustrators of the Present , Munich 1959, pages 90–95. - Pictures only.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: Calendar review 1958/59 . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 30.1959, issue 7, pages 16–25, images of calendar pages by Wiltraud Jasper: pages 18, 22.
  • Eberhard Hölscher: Congratulations from all over the world . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 30.1959, issue 10, pages 26–39, Wiltraud Jasper: page 31.
  • German Art Archives, inventory from March 14, 2012 , page 24, only online: PDF .
  • Georg Kurt Schauer: A short history of the German book cover in the 20th century. With 113 illustrations of book covers from the Curt Tillmann Collection , Königstein im Taunus 1962.
  • Walter Scheffler (catalog): Book covers 1900 - 1950 from the Curt Tillmann collection. An exhibition of the German Literature Archive in the Schiller National Museum Marbach a. N. from May 8 to October 31, 1971. [Exhibition and catalog: Walter Scheffler ...] , Munich 1971, page 190.
  • Elke Schutt-Kehm: Bookplate catalog of the Gutenberg Museum, 1st part. Information on 13487 bookplates from over 2000 artists , Wiesbaden 1985, picture bookplate Inge Vollmer: page 98, bookplate list: page 172.
  • Elke Schutt-Kehm: Ex-libris catalog of the Gutenberg Museum. Part 2. Information on 35,000 bookplates by over 7,000 artists with references to the first part. A - K: (13478 - 30605) , Wiesbaden 1998, illustration bookplate Wilhelm Surholt: page 538, bookplate list: page 540.
  • Elke Schutt-Kehm: Enjoying a book with heart and head. The reading woman as an ex-libris motif from 1900 to 1945 . In: Gabriela Signori : Die lesende Frau , Wiesbaden 2009, pages 439–457, Inge Vollmer bookplate: page 448, Ute Jasper bookplate: 456, 466.
  • Adolf Sennewald: German book illustrators in the first third of the 20th century. Materials for Bibliophile , Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 89-90.
  • Jasper, Wiltraud . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 99 .
  • Claus Wittal: Directory of owners for the bookplate catalog of the Gutenberg Museum. Contains the owner directories of part 1 (AZ), part 2 (AK & LZ) as well as the catalogs: Galerie Bauer, ex-libris from 6 centuries (catalog 23); Sylvia Wolf, bookplate - 1000 examples from five centuries; Burgk Castle, ex-libris from the 18th century to the present day , Wiesbaden 1985.
  • Klaus Witte: Ex-libris Bibliography of European Artists , Volume 2: H - Q , Frederikshavn 1996, References: Page 71.

Archives

  • German Literature Archive Marbach - Collection A: Tillmann, book cover collection by Curt Tillmann (1894–1981) with 32 book covers by Jasper from 1949.
  • German Literature Archive Marbach - Collection A: Wegner, letter from Wiltraud Jasper to Armin Theophil Wegner .
  • German art archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. - personal documents; Memberships, commissioned work, drafts, specimen copies; Correspondence from 1950–2004.

Web links

Commons : Wiltraud Jasper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Galerie Bauer: Ex-libris. 10,000 bookplates with 1,540 illustrations. Occasional graphics, bookplate literature, printing blocks , Hanover 1983, p. 499.
  2. ↑ a b c Eberhard Hölscher: woodcuts by Wiltraud Jasper, Lydia Sasulin . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 19.1942, issue 10, page 25.
  3. ^ Elke Schutt-Kehm: Ex-libris catalog of the Gutenberg Museum. Part 2. Information on 35,000 bookplates by over 7,000 artists with references to the first part. A - K: (13478 - 30605) , Wiesbaden 1998, illustration bookplate Wilhelm Surholt: page 538, bookplate list: page 540.
  4. ↑ a b Eberhard Hölscher: Wiltraud Jasper . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 23.1952, issue 3, pages 48–55.
  5. ↑ Thomas Theodor Heine: The truth is often improbable , Göttingen 2004, short bio by Eberhard Hölscher: Page 287–288 ( online in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ Hans A. Halbey: The advertising envelope. Results of a competition . In: Usage graphics. Monthly magazine for visual communication and artistic advertising 30.1959, issue 8, pages 10–19.
personal data
SURNAME Jasper, Wiltraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter-Jasper, Wiltraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH 1996