{"id":574,"date":"2020-04-15T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/?p=574"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:46:32","slug":"ernst-reichl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ismardavidarchive.org\/indexofnames\/ernst-reichl\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ernst Reichl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ernst Reichl, 1900\u20131980, book designer, typographer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in Leipzig,<\/span> Ernst Reichl was already a book designer when he emigrated to the United States in 1926. He held a Ph.D from the University of Leipzig, designed thousands of books and taught at New York University. He was active in the American Institute of Graphic Arts<\/a>, the Type Directors Club<\/a> and the Typophiles. He shared office space with Ismar David for a while and they had a joint exhibition at AIGA in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"David-Reichl<\/a>
Invitation to an exhibition of work by Ismar David and Ernst Reichl at the AIGA.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

John Begg introduced a tribute to the work of Ernst Reichl published by the Gallery 303, Heritage of the Graphic Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ernst Reichl has designed more than 2000 books\u2014on numerous subjects and for many publishers.
I believe there is evidence in all of his work of a readiness to depart from tradition when the occasion seems to demand such choice.<\/p>\n

For example, by tradition, the title of a book is on a righ-hand page. But where a pair of pages can be encompassed by one glance, as in a book, this right-hand placement can hardly be called preferred, or significant. With a half title occupying the first page, as is now customary, we open the title spread to a wide entrance into the book, and the whole area may well be considerd one graphic unit.<\/p>\n

This concept of the title page as a double spread has been developed by Ernst Reichl in many different ways: fifteen examples are shown here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n