Ignatz Wiemeler

Ignatz Wiemeler (1895–1952) was a German bookbinder and educator, internationally known and exhibited. He was part of the Offenbach School movement, alongside Rudolf Koch and the painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann.

Biography Wiemeler was born on 3 October 1895 in Ibbenbüren, Germany, his father was a bookbinder. He studied at University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (Hamburg Landeskunstschule), under teachers Franz Weisse, Anton Kling, and with Carl Otto Czeschka.

He was a founding member of Bund Meister der Einbandkunst (Association of Master Bookbinding Designers). Polly Lada-Mocarski, and others.

In 1935, he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, Ignatz Wiemeler: Modern Bookbinder. Additional he had solo exhibitions in the 1930s at Columbia University, and Harvard University.

He died on 25 May 1952 in Hamburg, West Germany.