Anton Stankowski

With Willi Baumeister, Max Bense, Walter Cantz, Egon Eiermann, Mia Seeger and others a new cultural circle developed.

In the 1960s, Stankowski created the now legendary 'Berlin layout', the city's visual identity, as well as the word trademarks IDUNA and VIESSMANN.

The 1970s saw the creation of famous logos and trademarks, such as the one for the Deutsche Bank, the Münchner Rückversicherungen, REWE and Olympic Congress Baden-Baden alongside many others.

In 1983, he established the Stankowski Foundation to make awards to others for bridging the domains of fine and applied art, as he himself had done.

Stankowski's work is noted for straddling the camps of fine and applied arts by synthesising information and creative impulse.

He was inspired by the abstract paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Malevich and Kandinsky.

He advocated graphic design as a field of pictorial creation that requires collaboration with free artists and scientists.