Wolfgang Weingart

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Wolfgang Weingart (* 1941 in Salemertal ) is a German graphic artist and typographer . It is assigned to the style of Swiss typography .

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childhood

Weingart was born in Salemertal in 1941 and spent his childhood there. From 1954 he lived with his family in Lisbon for two years . There he began to be interested in art and culture through the museums there.

education

In April 1958, he began a two-year training course in applied graphics and art at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. There he learned typesetting , printing with linocut and woodcut , and typography .

From 1960 to 1963 he trained as a typesetter in a small print shop in Stuttgart, where he mainly worked with hand typesetting . Here he had his first contact with Swiss typography and was enthusiastic about it.

In 1963 he put together works of his own in order to present them to the founders of the Basel School of Applied Arts Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann , also well-known typographers of Swiss typography , and to apply as a student. Instead, Armin Hofmann offered the 22-year-old typesetter the opportunity to teach typography as a teacher in his school.

= Teaching

In 1964 Weingart moved to Basel, sat in at the school at irregular intervals, where he was taught by Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann , and finally began to teach typography four years later.

Awards

His work was awarded the Swiss Grand Prix Design 2014 by the Federal Office for Culture in Bern. In 2013 he received the AIGA medal and since May 2005 he has been awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.

literature

  • Weingart, Wolfgang. Weingart: Typography - Paths to Typography , Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 2000 ( ISBN 978-3-907044-86-5 )
  • Knapp, Susan, Eppelheimer, Michael, Hofmann Dorothea et al. Weingart: The Man and the Machine , Statements by 77 of his Students at the Basel School of Design (1968–2004), Karo Verlag, Basel 2014 ( ISBN 3-9521009-7-8 )

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personal data
SURNAME Weingart, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typesetter, graphic artist and typographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Salemertal