Gebrauchsgraphik, 09, 1957

Michael Engelmann

Magazine / Periodical / Journal

Content includes:
Franz Hermann Wills: Hungarian graphic artists vindicate the artistic poster
Des graphites hongrois font campagne pour l’affiche artistique
Eberhard Hölscher: Accident and design. Novel attempts by Michael Engelmann
Eberhard Hölscher: The magazine of an English firm • Un house-organ anglais
Ludwig Ebenhöh: Udo Heieck, Commercial graphic art
Eberhard Hölscher: The lino cut as a means of artistic expression
Carl Heussner: Labels designed by Waldemar Hannemann
Walter Leonhard: From Japanese armorials
Eberhard Hölscher: Special exhibition: Beauty of industrial design •
Raimund Hrabak: Peter Hoffer, Mailand. Record-cases
«Columbia», a type of the type foundry Lettergieterij Amsterdam

Details

Format Magazine / Periodical / Journal
Designer/s Michael Engelmann
Year 1967
Client/Publisher Bruckmann Verlag
Size 210mm x 295mm

Michael Engelmann

Michael Engelmann was a self-taught designer. He was born in Czechoslovakia and in 1941 he went to the United States where he took various odd jobs before he was able to devote himself to advertising design. He returned to Europe in 1949, worked as a designer for the Amsterdam magazine International Textiles, was art director of the Neue Zeitung in Munich, then graphic designer with Pirelli, Milan, and from 1953 to 1957 lived in Düsseldorf and Munich alternatively, working as a freelance artist. Explore related designers including Anton Stankowski and Otl Aicher. See also German graphic design history and 1960s graphic design history.

Gebrauchsgraphik

A German design magazine published from 1924 onwards, devoted to commercial art and advertising design.

Linked Information

Design Format: Magazine / Periodical / Journal
Designed in the: 1960s
Series: Gebrauchsgraphik

Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1957 cover design by Michael Engelmann

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