Rudolf Koch

Rudolf Koch ( born November 20, 1876 in Nuremberg, † April 9, 1934 in Offenbach am Main ) was a typographer, graphic designer and calligrapher

Life

Rudolf Koch learned at the age of sixteen years in a hardware factory in Hanau the chasing. At the same time, he attended the Academy of Drawing. This was followed by a visit to the School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg and the Technical University in Munich. Following a stint as a draftsman and painter in Leipzig and a stay in London Rudolf Koch came to the printing industry, where he saw his true vocation.

In 1906, Koch joined in Offenbach in the Rudhardsche Foundry ( later Gebr Klingspor ). Pioneering fonts like the cables were designed by him here. Some of his designs were not completed until after his death. Hugo Eberhardt brought him to today's College of Design in Offenbach am Main, where in 1933 an elaborately designed and produced Germany map was created. A friendship linked him with the firm Heintze & Blanckertz, for their magazine " The contemporary writing - magazine for font and shape design ," he wrote regularly. This also published books by him. As a graphic Koch worked for the Insel Verlag. Karl Friedrich Lippmann portrayed Rudolf Koch in a woodcut.

Koch's children opened in the house Fuersteneck in Frankfurt Workshop House for Fuersteneck where numerous works of Rudolf Koch's were laid.

Work

Koch's efforts also referred to the renewal of the German cursive, which formally solidifies in the prevailing towards the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, the form of the German cursive and difficult to write was. Unlike Sütterlin Ludwig, who's had his Sütterlin writings in terms of ease of learning for school children, cooking has created with his Offenbacher writing an expressive character font.

About Fraktur cooking once wrote: " How dark firs spicy aroma of resin, such as when the blackbird widely calls through the evening, as the meadow grass wavers slightly delicacy, most glorious, most German of Scripture, we love you long time ". On another occasion, he described it as " one of the finest and most venerable monuments of the German national mind ."

Besides the development of Koch's writings was the interest of the Church's craft renewal. He designed candlesticks, vestments, communion equipment, and other items for church furnishings. In a special way benefited inform the Offenbacher peace church whose parishioners and church leaders he was. His style and the first 1923 characters book presented by him symbols were so pervasive that there is hardly a Protestant church in Germany was, in not just any piece of equipment from chef style was influenced by the late 1960s.

Together with Fritz Berthold Wolpe and Kredel ( woodcuts ) and the inclusion of other students worked Koch ( calligraphy) to 1933 at a large-scale map of Germany and adjacent areas, in the HF Jütte was created in six-color printing and in 1935 appeared in Leipzig Insel Verlag.

Vine and vine

Implementation in paramentics: Antependium the Marienkirche ( Stralsund )

Known students

  • Gotthard de Beauclair
  • Hans Bohn
  • Fritz Kredel
  • Friedrich Heinrichsen
  • Herbert Post
  • Kurt Scheele
  • Berthold Wolpe
  • Hans Kühne ( Emil John K. )
  • Eugene Kuhn
  • Max Waibel

Writings of Rudolf Koch

Broken fonts

  • Koch- Fraktur (1910-1921)
  • Spring (1914 )
  • Maximilian (1914 )
  • German Zierschrift ( 1921)
  • German display font (1923 )
  • Wilhelm Klingspor Book ( 1926)
  • Jessen Book ( 1929)
  • Wallau ( 1930)
  • New fracture ( 1934)
  • German text type (1934 )
  • Koch Kurrent (1935 ), after Koch's handwriting
  • Offenbach ( 1936), completed by Friedrich Heinrichsen
  • Claudius ( 1937), by Paul Koch completed

Round writings

  • Koch- Antiqua (1922 )
  • Neuland (1923 )
  • Cable (1927 )
  • Zeppelin ( 1929)
  • A prism (1930)
  • Holla (1932 )
  • Steel (1933 ), completed by Hans Kühne
  • Marathon ( 1938)

Exhibition

  • 2011: Believing in the Exquisite Siegfried Guggenheim A Jewish patron of the book and calligraphy. Klingspor Museum, Offenbach

Commemoration

In Offenbach am Main is available next to the Academy of Design ( HfG ) a gymnasium that bears his name. At his residence on Buchrainweg a commemorative plaque was placed, which was designed by Karl Georg Hoefer.

Works

  • ( ed without Responsibility of Offenbach's workshop. ): This is the sign book, which contains many types of signs and symbols, as they were known and used in the German nation of artisans and merchants, by stonemasons and pharmacists, by astronomers and other wise men and in the holy Christian church and the Christian life to the glory of God our father in heaven. Offenbach am M.: Gerstung 1923
  • The character book. What all kinds of characters, as they have been used in the earliest times, among the nations of antiquity, in early Christianity and the Middle Ages. With the help of friends gathered, drawn and explained. [ The characters were of Fritz Kredel in wood. cut ] 2 significantly expanded edition of Offenbach am M.: Gerstung 1926; Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1936 [ The deprec about the runes was by Friedrich von der Leyen edit ]; Reprints: Frankfurt / Main, Island ( Island Library, No. 1021), 1985; 2nd edition of this 1986 edition ISBN 3-458-19021- X
  • The Offenbacher font. An instruction to write a German and a Latin script from Rudolf Koch. Heintze & Blanckertz, Berlin 1928.
  • Rudolf Koch, The war experiences of the Grenadiers Rudolf Koch, with a self-portrait. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1934.
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