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Hans Neuburg (1904-1983)

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Born in Grulich in 1904, Austria-Hungary (today Czechoslovakia), dead in 1983 in Zurich, Switzerland. Graphic designer, typographer, author, painter, teacher.

1919-1922: trains at Orell Füssli AG in Zurich.

1928-1929: copywriter for the Max Dalang advertising agency in Zurich.

1930-1931: freelance designer. Works with Max Bill, Herbert Matter and Anton Stankowski, among others.

1932-1936: advertising manager for the Jean Haecki Import in Basle.

1933-1937: editor of “Industriewerbung” magazine in Basle.

1936: starts freelance graphic work in Zurich. Clients include the Mustermesse Basle and the International Red Cross.

1952-1953: editor of “Camera” magazine.

1958-1965: co-founder and co-edtor of “Neue Grafik” magazine with Richard Paul Lohse, joseph Müller-Brockmann and carlo vivarelli.

1962-1964: director of the Gewerbemuseum in Winterhur.

1963: teaches at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and in 1971 at Carlton University, School of Industrial Design in Ottawa, Canada.

Publication include:

  • Moderne Werbe- und Gebrauchsgraphik (Raversburg, 1960)
  • Richard Paul Lohse: 60. Geburstag (ed. Teufen, 1962)
  • Graphic design in Swiss Industry (ABC Verlag, 1965)
  • Publicity and Graphic design in the chemical industry (ABC Verlag, 1967)
  • Conceptions of International Exhibition ( ABC Verlag, 1969)
  • 50 anni di Grafica costruttiva (Milan, 1983)

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