Albert Windisch
Albert Windisch ( born May 17, 1878 in Friedberg ( Hessen), † April 1, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter, Academy Professor and typographer.
Life
Albert Windisch was the son of Georg Windisch Hofbäckers the Grand Duke of Hesse supplied the court and the royal family during their stay in Germany. The residential and commercial building in Usagasse 14 in Friedberg hosts today a bakery.
Windisch only visited the Royal. Art school in Berlin, where he took the Prussian drawing teacher exam, then he studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (including Adolf Schlabitz ) and from 1901 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1905 he taught commercial art at the School of Applied Arts in Frankfurt and was in contact with the art historian Fritz Wichert from the Städel, whose correspondence is preserved. In 1922 he founded the Frankfurt Gutenberg press at the Carl fog, Hugo Ernst Kühn and Rehbein worked. He founded 1924 Albinus and Rehbein the Department typography and bookbinding at the art school, the leadership of this department he transferred in 1925 Fritz Wichert, with whom he drove forward the integration of the arts and crafts school in the Städel school. At Windisch's students included the later as "degenerate" defamed artist Kurt Scheele Moritz Coschell and Fried star, and the typographer Herbert Post and Max Waibel. When Willi Baumeister professor had to be sacrificed to the politically motivated austerity of the Nazis, Windisch also took over some of his courses at the Städel School.
Windisch was from 1913 at the latest member of the Deutscher Werkbund and member of the Weimar society of bibliophiles. From 1921 it belonged to the Federation of German commercial artist ( local group Offenbach), and in 1930 was chairman of the Rhine -Main- group. He held this position after 1933, as such he is mentioned in a publication of a speech by Joseph Goebbels against the Reich Chamber of Culture on November 15, 1933 Contacts. It should be noted that in an outlet at least a prohibition would have followed. Windisch was also " Life Member " of the Gutenberg Society. From 1949 he was in contact with Theodor Heuss.
Until the 1960s Windisch taught at the Städel School. His private studio was located on the Adickesallee Ranked # 11 in Frankfurt, and his house in the Imperial Road # 150 in Friedberg. 1958 Windisch donated drawings by Wilhelm Konrad calf from its ownership of the Frankfurt Art Association.
About his life's work, the Frankfurter Rundschau in 1958 wrote an extensive review on his 80th birthday, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on his 85th birthday.
Work
In the field of tension between tradition and modernity
In the 1920s, there was a creative rivalry between the traditional affine Offenbacher school to Rudolf Koch, Hugo Eberhardt and Dominic Böhm, as well as the modern avant-garde project New Frankfurt Ernst May that of the Frankfurt schools ( School of Applied Arts and Staedelschule ) was supported.
Windisch was probably the only protagonist who acted for a long time in these two action spaces, he worked as a teacher with Fritz Wichert on a reform and merger of the two schools in Frankfurt and was as in the 1920s and 1930s as a graphic along with the siblings Hans Leistikov and Grete Leistikov active. More often, however, it is the Offenbach district zugerechnet.vermutlich because of his friendship for two years older Rudolf Koch and his bibliophile circles. For this environment (which is preferred Fraktur ) also came criticism for its font Windisch italics: " The drawn from the Frankfurt graphic artist Albert Windisch» Windisch- Italic "is one of the writing tool ... if the extremely expressionist drawings the closed vignette character can miss "
As a painter Windisch preferred urban scenes and landscapes, as well as after 1945, mainly floral motifs. His artistic work carries expressionist traits but also attacked the painting of the late 19th century and the art-historical tradition.
Works (selection)
The magazine The Rhineland wrote in 1922 about an exhibition: The " Peaches " by Albert Windisch and the " sunflower composition" by Karl Lippmann are both quality works of fine selected color effect. His class at the Städel is praised in a report of the colors due to: A happy colorful picture offers the use of graphics, which is overseen by Albert Windisch.
- " Goethe's garden house in Weimar ", 1911
- "Upper Main Bridge / Main river / Advertising Column ", mixed media ( charcoal, crayon, opaque white ), 1920
- " Peaches ", 1922
- "Interior ", 1922
- " Gottfried Keller ," woodcut, 1924
- " Flock of sheep on the way to a thirsty Autumn Landscape ", oil painting
- " Sheep in Mountain Landscape ", oil painting, 1927
- "In the urban riverside ", mixed media ( charcoal, crayon, opaque white ), 1938
- "Winter Landscape / bridge bank ", mixed media ( charcoal, crayon, opaque white ), 1952
- "View of Baden -Baden ", oil painting, 1958
- " Arthur Schopenhauer " 1959 woodcut for Arthur Pretty 1959. (Today in the collection of the University of Frankfurt)
- " Summer day on the lake shore ", Watercolor, 1950s
- "Mother and Child in the Park"
- " Summery Park of Weimar "
Graphic Design and Typography (selection)
- Italic font for Klingspor Windisch, 1917
- Typographic advice of Stempel AG
- " German contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main" poster design for the exhibition 1933
- " Reichshandwerkertag " certificate of Frankfurt for the award of the Hans Craft Memorial Prize, 1936
- " Swiss Wine " by Emanuel Stickelberger, Basel 1945
Publications
- Albert Windisch: The Kleukens fracture and some thoughts on the topic of " book culture ", 1910
- Albert Windisch: Rudolf Koch: a German calligrapher, 1911 ( engl: " The Work of Rudolf Koch " by Albert Windisch, - Cambridge University Press)
- Albert Windisch: German factory font designer since 1900
- Albert Windisch: William Morris as a printer, Gutenberg Society, 1929
- Albert Windisch: Artistic Printing Type: how does a font? How to judge a font? Stamp, 1955
- Albert Windisch: Walter Tiemann