Tilp, Alfred

artist

born: 25.03.1932 in Karlsbad

died: 04.06.2006 in Würzburg

After graduating from high school in Günzburg/Danube in 1952, Tilp trained as a lithographer and studied graphic design, painting and art education at the art academies in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Berlin from 1956-62. From 1962 he taught at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and the Werkkunstschule Mainz (since 1971 FH Mainz) and from 1975 was Professor of Communication Design, most recently (until 1996) at the FH Würzburg.

He developed the fonts Linotype Markin™, Bardi (URW) and TilpSerif (Elsner & Flake). Tilp worked as a freelance graphic designer for advertising agencies, industry, publishing houses and public institutions. His first artistic works were created from 1970 onwards. From 1975 onwards he took part in group exhibitions, and from 1978 onwards he held solo exhibitions, several times in Wiesbaden, but also in Bamberg, Amsterdam, Würzburg, Dresden, Eindhoven and Mainz, among others.

His artistic activities included typographic pictures, lithographs, collages, scribble art, compugraffiti and face art. He experimented with free music, playing the trombone, and was involved in book and magazine projects. In the summer of 1979, he was the founder and then mentor of Kooperative New Jazz Wiesbaden e.V., at whose events he performed several times as part of ARTist. In 1983 he published his novel "Tour de France. Ein fiktiver autobiographischer Bericht aus der Zeit danach" and the SF short story "Leben auf dem Lande" in 1984. For his "photograffiti", he worked directly on slides with a scraper and fine felt-tip pens and then enlarged them to DIN A 3 using a color copier.