Joost Schmidt (1893 - 1948) was a German typographer, a teacher or master at the Bauhaus, and later a professor at the College of Visual Arts, Berlin. He was a visionary typographer and graphic designer who is best known for designing the famous poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, Germany.
Schmidt studied art at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Art in Weimar, before becoming a student at the Bauhaus School from 1919–1925, training in the wood-carving workshop. He became the master student of Max Thedy and received his diploma in painting in the winter semester of 1913/1914.
Joost Schmidt taught lettering at the school from 1925–1932; head of the sculpture workshop from 1928-1930. He was also head of the Advertising, Typography, Printing, and associated Photography department from 1928 to 1932. In the years of 1929-1930, he taught life and figure drawing classes for upper division work.
To this day, Joost Schmidt remains as one of the most overlooked figures of the Bauhaus and its simultaneous geniuses of both art and design. This may be down to the fact he attempted to separate himself from the school’s influence as the nazis were rising to the political top of Germany, but what is often neglected is the fact he contributed greatly to the legacy of Bauhaus after the war ended. Following the nazi regime’s downfall, Schmidt was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (School of Art) in Berlin and had an immense role in the design of the exhibition Berlin plant/Erster Bericht, the first exhibition on the city’s plans for reconstruction held by former Bauhaus colleagues.
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| Mr. Joost Schmidt |
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| Junge Menschen, 1919-20 |
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| Carved door in Sommerfeld House, 1921 Berlin |
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Carved house in Sommerfeld House, 1921 Berlin
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| Sommerfield House Carvings, 1921 |
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| The New Chess Game, 1923 Germany |
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| Weimar Exhibition, 1923 Germany |
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| Weimar Exhibition, 1923, Germany, detail |
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| Bauhaus Weimar - Junge Menschen. Magazine, 1924 |
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Dessau Verkehrsbüro (Dessau Tourist Office) 1924
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YKO label, 1924–25
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YKO Büroneuheiten (office novelties) 1924-26
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| Das Bauhaus in Dessau, 1925 postcard |
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| Map for the Bauhaus in Dessau, 1925 |
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| Usstellung Arntz Holzchnitte (Exhibition Arntz woodcuts) 1925 |
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| Bauhaus 'Elementar Axon, 1925 Germany |
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| Mechanical stage design, 1925-1926 |
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| Die Form magazine, 1926 letterhead |
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| Offset Buch und WerBekunst (Offset Book and Advertising Art) 1926 Germany |
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| YKO Office Supplies, 1926 Germany |
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Bauhaus- Vierteljahr-Zeitschrift für Gestaltung
(Bauhaus quarterly magazine for design) October-December 1929
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| Bauhaus magazine cover, 1929 |
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| 1929 Untitled - Construction of a square-based grotesque typeface, 1929 |
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| Work from Joost Schmidt's Sculpture, 1929 |
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| Bauhaus 'Dessau', Germany, 1930 |
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Advertising Brochure 'der bauhaustapete gehört die zukunft'
(the future belongs to the bauhaus wallpaper) 1931 |
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| Relief man on the run, 1932 |
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| Bauhaus — 100 Years, 100 Objects, 1933 |
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