Otto Eckmann

Otto Eckmann by Lovis Corinth

Otto Eckmann (November 19, 1865 – June 11, 1902) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was a prominent member of the "floral" branch of Jugendstil.^[1] He created the Eckmann typeface,^[2] which was based on Japanese calligraphy.

Otto Eckmann was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1865. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and Nuremberg and at the academy in Munich. In 1894, Eckmann gave up painting (and auctioned off his works) in order to concentrate on applied design. He began producing graphic work for the magazines Pan in 1895 and Jugend in 1896. He also designed book covers for the publishers Cotta, Diederichs, Scherl and Seemann, as well as the logo for the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. In 1897 he taught ornamental painting at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin. In 1899, he designed the logo for the magazine Die Woche. From 1900 to 1902, Eckmann did graphic work for the Allgemeine Elektrizitätsgesellschaft (AEG). During this time, he designed the fonts Eckmann (in 1900) and Fette Eckmann (in 1902), probably the most common Jugendstil fonts still in use today.

Eckmann died on June 11, 1902 in Badenweiler, Germany.

References

1. ^ Anderson, Stanford (2000). Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century. MIT Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780262511308. 
2. ^ Download Eckmann Regular - Linotype.com at www.linotype.com

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Name	Eckmann, Otto
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Date of birth	November 19, 1865
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Date of death	June 11, 1902
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