- Anton Stankowski
Anton Stankowski (
June 18 ,1906 -December 11 ,1998 ) was aGermany
Germangraphic designer ,photographer and painter. He developed an original Theory of Design and pioneered Constructive Graphic Art. Typical Stankowski designs attempt to illustrate processes or behaviours rather than objects. Such experiments resulted in the use offractal -like structures long before their popularisation byBenoît Mandelbrot in 1975.Early life
Anton Stankowski was born in
Gelsenkirchen , Westphalia. Before embarking on the profession of graphic designer, Stankowski worked as a decorator and church painter. In 1927 he attended theFolkwang Academy with fellow photographer,Max Burchartz .Professional career
Stankowski's work is noted for straddling the camps of fine and applied arts by synthesising information and creative impulse. He was inspired by the abstract paintings of
Piet Mondrian ,Theo van Doesburg ,Malevich andKandinsky . Stankowski advocatedgraphic design as a field of pictorial creation that requires collaboration with free artists and scientists.Despite producing many unique examples of
concrete art andphoto-graphics , Stankowski is best known for designing the simple trademark of theDeutsche Bank .By 1980, Stankowski had produced a volume of trademarks for clients in
Germany andSwitzerland . In 1983, he established theStankowski Foundation to award others for bridging the domains of fine and applied art. Following his death in December 1998, theGerman Artist Federation awarded Anton Stankowski the honoraryHarry Graf Kessler Award for his life work.External links
* [http://www.stankowski06.de/index_english.html Stankowski 06 · Aspekte des Gesamtwerks]
* [http://www.stankowski-stiftung.de Stankowski Foundation]References
*citebook | author=Stankowski, Anton | title=Visual Presentation of Invisible Processes: How to Illustrate Invisible Processes in Graphic Design | publisher=Hastings House | location=New York | year=1967
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