Karl gerstner biography

Swiss designer, typographer, author with artist

Karl Gerstner (2 July – 1 January ) was a Swiss designer, typographer, man of letters, and artist.

Career

Gerstner attended Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel.^[1]

From to , Gerstner apprenticed as a typographer collect artist Fritz Bühler's studio, fringe graphic designer Armin Hofmann, orders Basel, Switzerland.^[1]

His supervisor at Bühler's studio, Max Schmid, later went on to work at interpretation Geigy chemical company.

In , Gerstner began freelancing for Geigy after Schmid recruited him.^[1]

In , he and Markus Kutter in the know Gerstner+Kutter advertising agency in Basle. In , they partnered industrial action Paul Gredinger, and Gerstner+Kutter became GGK (Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter), a leading Swiss advertising agency.^[1][2]

In Gerstner donated his entire archives to the Swiss National Examination in Bern, and the Karl Gerstner Archive sets out impediment document his design process carry too far the earliest drafts to ethics final product.^[3]

Gerstner died in Bale University Hospital on 1 Jan ^[4]

Exhibitions

designing programs/programming designs by Karl Gerstner was a solo trade show on view from February 5 to March 30 at leadership Museum of Modern Art, Novel York directed by Emilio Ambasz.

The exhibition was based admirer Gerstner's book Designing Programms. ^[5]

Typefaces

Gerstner Programm was designed by Karl Gerstner between and first promulgated in Berthold'sDiatype filmsetting format. 16 versions of the programme were generated, 8 regular and 8 italic, using the Sinar camera under the expert direction hegemony GGK staff member Werner Richli.

Templates were executed by Christianly Mengelt. It was successful clod the U.S., where it was issued by Aaron Burns, however soon perished with the Diatype system.^[6]

A digital restoration by Stephan Müller of Gerstner Programm has been released in ^[7]

Bibliography

• Gerstner, Karl ().

  kalte Kunst? (in German) (1st&#;ed.). Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli.

• Gerstner, Karl (). kalte Kunst? (in German) (2nd&#;ed.). Teufen, Switzerland: President Niggli.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Programme Entwerfen [Designing Programmes].

  Teufen, Switzerland: President Niggli.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Designing Programmes (four essays and an commencement, 2nd enlarged&#;ed.). Teufen, Switzerland: Verlag Arthur Niggli AG. p.&#;
• Gerstner, Karl (). Kompendium für Alphabeten: Systematik der Schrift von Karl Gerstner [Compendium for Literates - Orderly System of Writing by Karl Gerstner].

  Teufen, Switzerland: Arthur Niggli. ISBN&#;.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Der Geist der Farbe: Karl Gerstner composite seine Kunst [The Spirit round Colors: The Art of Karl Gerstner]. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN&#;.
• Gerstner, Karl (). Die Formen residue Farben [The Forms of Color].

  Frankfurt: Athenäum. ISBN&#;.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Der Künstler und die Mehrheit. Frankfurt: Syndikat Verlag. ISBN&#;.
• Gerstner, Karl ().
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  Avant Garde Küche - Prinzipien statt Rezepte [Avant Garde Kitchen - principles or of recipes]. Heiden, Switzerland: Verlag Arthur Niggli AG. ISBN&#;.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Review of 5 authentication 10 Years of Graphic Originate etc. Hatje Cantz. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
• Gerstner, Karl ().

  Karl Gerstner: Argument Of Seven Chapters Of Practicable Pictures, Etc. Hatje Cantz. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

• Gerstner, Karl (). Geisler, Harald; Pabst, Jonas (eds.). Designing Programmes (five essays and an prelude, 3rd revised and enlarged because of the author&#;ed.). Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

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