Wolfgang Weingart

Wolfgang Weingart ( born 1941 in Salemertal, Germany, near the Swiss border ) is an internationally known graphic designer and typographer. He is assigned to the style of Swiss typography.

Curriculum vitae

Childhood

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

Training

In April 1958 he started at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart two years of training in the field of applied graphics and art. There he learned typesetting, printing with linocuts and woodcuts, typography.

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

In 1963 he is working together of themselves, they also introduce to the founders of the School of Applied Arts in Basel Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann, known typographers of Swiss typography, and to apply as a student. Armin Hofmann offered the 22 -year-old typesetter to instead, in his school to teach as a teacher typography.

Teaching

Weingart 1964 draws to Basel, shadowed at irregular intervals in the school, where he is taught by oars and Hofmann and finally begins to teach four years later to typography.

Awards

His work has been recognized by the Federal Department of the Interior in Bern. Since May 2005 he has the title of Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.