Karl Duschek (1947 – 2011)
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Karl Duschek, relief of the sign for the 7. Kleinplastik-
Triennale, Stuttgart 1998, relief 2009
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Karl Duschek, Color variations of the Deutsche Bank Logo, 1973 (logo design by Anton Stankowski, 1973)
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Karl Duschek, Horizontal, vertikal und diagonal, installation view, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, 2009
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Karl Duschek, Horizontal, vertikal, diagonal,1987/2009
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Karl Duschek, Vertikal, diagonal und diagonal, installation, detail, 2009
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Karl Duschek, card game, collage, 1970ies
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He’s considered to be one of the most influential graphic designers of the present day. At the same time, he was an important proponent of Concrete Art. For Karl Duschek, the boundaries between art and design were always uncertain. Now, he has died in his native city Stuttgart at the age of 64.
Duschek’s clear, memorable aesthetic was also extremely important for the visual identity of Deutsche Bank: in 1972, he began his brilliant collaboration with Anton Stankowski. In their graphic design studio in Stuttgart, they developed the distinctive Deutsche Bank logo in the seventies. Atelier Stankowski+Duschek designed many prominent brands, such as the corporate design of the Deutsche Börse (German Stock Exchange), which was introduced in 1993.
Karl Duschek was born in 1947 in Braunschweig. Following his training as a lithographer, he began studying at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig. Throughout these years, he closely studied the color theory Johannes Itten developed at the Bauhaus. Duschek made his first serial works while still a student. As a representative of Concrete Art, his works are based on mathematical and geometric ideas. He mainly worked with series of monochromatic forms that he extended into the third dimension, into small cubes and triangles. With the greatest consistency, he ascribed to a Constructivist aesthetic and remained true to the fundamental theme in his work—to represent complex orders in a reduced formal language.
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