Hans schleger biography

Hans Schleger (Zéró) 1898-1976 .
Hans Schleger was a German-Polish-Jewish and later British graphic designer.
Hans Schleger [also known as Zéró] was born in Hans Leo Degenhard Schlesinger in Kempen, Prussia, Germany [now Kepno, Poland] on 29 December 1898.

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Hans Schleger

Hans Schleger, als Künstler mit: Zéró zeichnend (* 29. Dezember1898 in Kempen, Kreis Kempen in Posen^[1] als Hans Leo Degenhard Schlesinger; † 18. September1976 in London) war ein deutsch-britischerGrafiker und Grafikdesigner, spezialisiert auf Gebrauchsgrafik, international auch bekannt für seine Plakatkunst.

Leben und Werk

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Hans Schleger, ursprünglich Schlesinger, war ein Sohn des Arztes Eduard (Elkan) Schlesinger (1859–1932) und seiner Frau Bianka geb. Mendelsohn (1871–1942), die in Treblinka ermordet wurde. Sein älterer Bruder war der Drehbuchautor Walter Schlee.

Schleger studierte von 1918 bis 1921 an der Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin, zu einem Zeitpunkt, als dort die Einflüsse des Bauhauses eine große Rolle spielten.

Von 1921 bis 1924 war Schleger als Werbe- und Film-Designer für Carl Hagenbeck, auch in Berlin tätig. Im Jahre 1924 zog er für fünf Jahre nach New York City, wo er, zunächst als freischaffender Designer, dann ein Jahr als Art Director einer Werbeagentur arbeitete. Er lehrte für eine W

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Hans Schleger

Hans Schleger was a German-Polish-Jewish and later British graphic designer.

He was born in Kempen in Posen, Prussia (in modern-day Poland) on 9 December 1898 to Jewish parents. His family relocated to Berlin when he was six. At the age of 20, he changed his surname to Schleger, and attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (from 1918-1921), studying under painter Emil Orlik. He began his career in Berlin, working for John Hagenbeck as a film set designer, and also designed the firm's logo. In 1924 he moved to New York City to work in the publishing and advertising industry, initially as a freelance designer, illustrator, and magazine layout artist, and later as an art director; he began using the pseudonym 'Zéró' in 1926, when he founded his own firm on Madison Avenue, and would continue to use the name for the rest of his career. After three years in New York he moved back to Germany to work for the Berlin branch of W.S. Crawford, an English advertising firm.

In 1932, he moved to England, continuing to work for Crawford's. He became an integral part of London's early 1930

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Hans Schleger

Some of the most important work of the graphic designer Hans Schleger was created for London Transport. Born Hans Leo Degenhard Schlesinger to a Prussian Jewish family, Schleger studied with Emil Orlik at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Art School) in Berlin and came to England in 1932 after working in New York and Berlin. Schleger, who signed himself “Zéró”, had already enjoyed international renown for several years at this time, so was able to set up his own agency in London quite easily. In 1935, Schleger succeeded in integrating the round signet of the company as part of the image dramaturgy. The reassuring glance at the wristwatch, which also forms the circular sign of public transport, simulates punctuality and reliability.

The London Transport trademark was also to commission Hans Schleger in another major commission. As a transnational artist who had worked equally successfully in Germany, the United States and Great Britain, Schleger was interested in signs as means of communication that transcended national borders and languages. For the relaunch of London Transp