Max Huber (graphic designer)

Max Huber ( born June 5, 1919 in Baar, Canton train, Switzerland, † November 16, 1992 in Mendrisio, Switzerland ) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer who specializes in commercial graphics and internationally known for his poster art.

Life and work

Max Huber learns at an advertising agency in Zurich and studied at the School of Applied Arts. He worked for the Zurich large printing Conzett & Huber and entered thereafter in 1940 as an art director in the studio Boggeri in Milan. In 1941 he returned to Switzerland and was art director of the Artemis Verlag in Zurich. At the same time he worked as a freelance graphic designer and an architect for various advertising agencies and for the industries.

In 1946 he returned to Italy, where he worked for companies such Edizioni Einaudi, Olivetti and La Rinascente. He was awarded art director of RAI from 1951. In 1954 he received various textile designs for the Compasso d' Oro prize.

He has worked successfully as a poster artist, graphic designer and illustrator. In 1964, some of his works at the documenta III in Kassel in the Department graphics were shown. Huber was married to Aoi Huber- Kono, his father was Takashi Kono.

" He was one of the artists who created a new image of Italy after the Second World War: Max Huber took early as 1946 with the poster and the wall decoration of the Milan dance palace " Siren Ella " the cheerful lightness of the fifties anticipated. "

M.a.x.museo

The maxMuseo was opened in his honor in 2005 in the Swiss town of Chiasso by Aoi Huber- Kono and began a series of exhibitions in 2006 with "Max Huber - Poetry Visive ". The exhibitions focus mainly on graphics and design, including 2008 " Omaggio a Bruno Munari " or 2010 the exhibition " Gillo Dorfles - Movimento Arte Concreta 1948-1958 ".

Sources and Literature

  • Maddalena Disch: Huber, Max in SIKART
  • Documenta III. International Exhibition; Catalogue: Volume 1: Paintings and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand drawings; Volume 3: Industrial design, graphic; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Frank Maier- Solgk: New Museums in Europe: places of worship for the 21st century. DVA, Munich 2008, pp. 162-165
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