March 12 Program – Women of the Klingspor Presentation with Louise Grunewald

Women of the Klingspor

Presented by Louise Grunewald

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

6:30-8pm MST on Zoom

Program Description

To visit the Klingspor Museum of Book and Letter Arts in Offenbach Germany is a calligrapher’s dream. The collection encompasses some of the finest lettering / calligraphy examples from around the world, as well as hand-bound and hand-lettered books. I have been fortunate to visit many times and have never been disappointed. Many of the examples are the works of well-known men in the field, but on my last trip, along with my colleague Andrea Wunderlich, we requested specifically to see work by female artists. These women, mostly from the early 20th Century, were successful in their own right but not as well-known, which is often the case of women the arts. It is their work that I will showcase in my presentation, from traditional and formal to experimental and ahead of its time.