Erik Nitsche definitely left a stamp on the world of design during his wonderful 60 year career. He worked in pretty much every field of design. He worked as an illustrator, book designer, typographer, art director, advertiser, photographer, and as a packaging designer. Some of specific work in graphic design included magazine covers, exhibitions, film, signage, and posters. Nitsche’s work greatly influenced America’s young generation of designers in the mid-20th century and is still considered to be a big name in the graphic design world.
Erik Nitsche was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was born into an art minded family. His father and grandfather were noted as artists and photographers. Paul Klee was a famous artist back then and he was close friends with the family. Since Klee was around the family while Erik was growing up, he influenced Erik to be more of an artist rather than being a photographer. Instead of going to school where Paul Klee was a teacher, Nitsche had his schooling done at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, Germany. Soon after he graduated in the early 930s, he got hired to a company out of Paris, France by a company called Maximilien vox. His main job …show more content…
He titled the company ENI which stands for Erik Nitsche International. His main projects consisted of making pictorial history books. The volumes included, aviation, transportation, astronomy, and chemistry. The largest project he ever did was creating a twenty volume set that consisted the full history of music from jazz to classical. He was able to generate huge amounts of material since his name was Erik Nitsche. He pretty much did whatever he wanted to because he was so dang talented. He would just go work for big companies for free because he knew how talented he was and didn’t need to get paid anything because he knew he had a gift was bigger than