Karl Gerstner | i |
 
last name: Gerstner
first name: Karl
birthday: July 2, 1930
birth-place: Basel (Switzerland)
death date: January 1, 2017
died in: Basel (Switzerland)
Summary

Karl Gerstner was a typographer, designer, and self-taught artist. Much of his time he lived and worked in Hippolskirch (Alsace-Lorraine, France), but Basel (Switzerland) was his main location. He was also an excellent writer on topics of design and art.

Gerstner was part of the second wave of Swiss typography. He studied under Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann. Hofmann proceeded Ruder as head of the

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Biography

1945 – 1948 Completes apprenticeship in graphics at the Atelier Fritz Bühler in Basel and subsequently worked as a graphic designer and fine artist.
1953 Produced his first programmed images called Bunte Reihen.
1957 Published his first book ‘kalte Kunst? Zum Standort der heutigen Malerei’ (a survey of the school of concrete-constructive abstract painting to which he belongs).
1959
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anonymous
posted over 10 years ago
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