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The City of Leipzig will award the 2011 Gutenberg Prize to Karl-Georg Hirsch. |
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UPDATE: Announcement from the Department of Culture:
The City of Leipzig will award the 2011 Gutenberg Prize to Karl-Georg Hirsch.
A jury convened in November 2010 under the direction of Leipzig's Minster of Culture, Michael Faber, has chosen German graphic artist and book illustrator Karl-Georg Hirsch as the 2011 laureate of the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig.
The jury recognizes the work of Karl-Georg Hirsch as a major contribution to the international visual arts in the last third of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century.
The Gutenberg Prize will be presented to Karl-Georg Hirsch by the mayor of Leipzig at the German National Library on June 24th, 2011.
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Uwe Loesch / Winner of the Gutenberg Prize 2009 |
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The Gutenberg Prize of Leipzig City for 2009 is being presented by Mayor Burkhard Jung to Uwe Loesch on 13 March 2009.
Accolade by: Professor emiritus Kurt Weidemann, Stuttgart.
The Gutenberg Prize of Leipzig City has been awarded since 1959 in memory of Johannes Gutenberg and to honour personalities and institutions who "render outstanding, exemplary services to the advancement of the book arts" (as stated in the Statutes). With 10,000 euros of prize money, the award exemplifies Leipzig's tradition as a historical centre for quality print work and the fostering of book arts. Since 1993, it has alternated annually with the prize of the same name awarded by the City of Mainz. The intention is to honour exceptional artistic, technical or scientific achievements, above all in the fields of typography, book illustration, book-art editing and book production.
Uwe Loesch, born 1943 in Dresden, grew up in Jena and came to Düsseldorf in 1959, where he studied graphic design at the Peter-Behrens-Werkkunstschule from 1964-68. In 1985, he was appointed professor of multimedia design at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (University of Applied Science). Appointment to the chair of communication design at the Bergische University of Wuppertal followed in 1990. In book and in poster typography, Uwe Loesch has pioneered new developments in illustrative and interpretational use of typeface and convincingly demonstrated that irrespective of its inherent form, the typeface itself has its own meaningfulness through the application and mutation of typographic possibilities. This creative achievement goes hand in hand with always exciting and surprising solutions in overall design. There are few artists who place picture and text in relation to one another in a more varied or subtly diversified way.
Several of his posters have been included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and are on show in the permanent exhibition.
Link to Uwe Loesch website
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The Prize Committee Citation for the Prize |
Uwe Loesch is one of the best-known and most influential communication designers worldwide, equally as innovative in the areas of typography, poster and book design, as in the use of photography.
He has pioneered new developments in the illustrative and interpretational use of typeface in book and poster typography and repeatedly found convincing solutions which, through the application and mutation of typographic possibilities, endow typeface with its own meaningfulness. His works use typeface not with the objective of achieving optimum, that is, fast readability, but rather, the spectator is stimulated by alienation effects, associations, fusions and illustration/type mixtures into a thoughtfulness that lastingly upholds the impact of what is read and seen.
In different ways, an intuitive and highly sensitive balancing correlation achieves a subtly diversified visual interrelation between picture and text. In this process, typeface frequently becomes an integral part of the illustrative motif or in logical consequence, is itself the picture. In the case of posters, the subversion of conventions creates attention impact, in the design of book typography a more powerful exploration of the contents, without ever being an end in itself.
With its character of targeted intent, the attitude of brushing everything "against the grain" produces results in book design that emphasise the essential core of the publication elegantly and without frills, with no superfluous elements.
With wit and unusual empathetic focus on the particular task, the reader/spectator is drawn into the process of intellectual understanding.
With this way of working which has remained fresh and provided inspiration for decades, Uwe Loesch has attained a worldwide reputation, manifesting itself in the international recognition of exhibitions and awards, but not least, in his position as a motivator for countless younger colleagues.
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The previous winners of the Prize since 1959 |
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The Gutenberg Prize of Leipzig City has been awarded since 1959, alternating annually with Mainz since 1993.
The Statut are available to you here
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Contact |
Cultural Affairs Office
Cultural Promotion Dept
Matthias Graf
Neues Rathaus
D-04092 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: ++49 341 123-4293
Fax: ++49 341 123-4237
E-mail: matthias.graf@leipzig.de
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