The Kurt Kampf Collection, the Herbert Sahliger Foundation

Senior teacher Dr. Kurt Kampf (1907 - 1990) taught at the Rudolf Koch School in Offenbach, he was also a poet, collector of prints and press prints and a patron of the Offenbach Artists' Association. Dr. Kampf bequeathed numerous prints from his private library and his fortune to the Klingspor Museum for the purchase of works of book art.
The Klingspor Museum's 1997 fall exhibition showed all eight precious artist's books from the Tukan Press, the purchase of which he had made possible with his bequest.

The prints from Dr. Kampf's collection that are in the Klingspor Museum's holdings are listed here:

Herbert Sahliger has made a generous donation to the Klingspor Museum. It will provide the museum with long-term support for acquisitions, publications and events. In particular, the symposium INS BESONDERE to mark the museum's 60th anniversary was supported from this source. In addition, Herbert Sahliger has donated his graphic estate to the Klingspor Museum.

Herbert Sahliger was born on May 12, 1920 in Karwin, Czech Republic. He completed his studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, in particular in Prof. Herta Larisch's class for lettering and book art. His participation in the exhibition "International Calligraphy Today" at the IT Center, New York, brought him particular recognition. Herbert Sahliger was a teacher at the Master School for Fashion in Munich. His graphic legacy bears witness to his intensive involvement with the design of letters, in addition to the creation of logos (for Bayerischer Rundfunk, for example). The geometrically based construction on the one hand, the gestural of the graphic style of handwriting on the other - both always remained at the center of Herbert Sahliger's work.

(Literature: Wolfgang Bergmeir, Herbert Sahliger, in: novum gebrauchsgraphik, 59/1988, p.54-58)