Stankowski 06: Aspects of his Oeuvre

Ulrike Gauss, Karl Duschek, René Grohnert & Hans Heinz Holz

Hardcover | 24.6 x 32 cm |408 pp | 1019 illustrations

Hatje Cantz | 2006 |  9783775717434

Text in English and German

Celebrates the 100th anniversary of Stankowski’s birth by presenting the entire spectrum of his surprising and inventive designs.

As a decorative painter influenced by the Bauhaus and a comrade-in-arms of the Concrete artists in Zurich, he began to concentrate on fundamental visual elements in the late 1920s. At the same time, his masterly, abstract photographs, clever advertising graphics, and remarkable company logos were outstanding examples of visualisation in the applied arts.

In the post-war years, besides his work for SEL, the Süddeutscher Rundfunk, and the Deutsche Bank, he developed a formal theory of design and also produced many paintings and high-quality prints.