Talk:Wolfgang Weingart

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There he was introduced to the company’s consulting designer, Karl-August Hanke, who became his mentor and encouraged him to study in Switzerland.

Being honest, Where's the source of this?, it kinda doesn't make sense. Karl August Hanke was the name of the consulting designer?. Because when you search that person, it's literally not the Karl-August Hanke that you see on Wikipedia (That person died on 1945, he couldn't even teach Weingart). This info isn't even in Deutsch Wikipedia, and Deutsch's article is even more complete than English's one. I supposed that they censured it because the name is the same as someone that was part of Nazi Party, but it shouldn't be possible nor okay as it is story, so this doesn't make enough sense for me. 2802:8010:410B:BF00:999F:783B:EECD:7A9A (talk) 06:18, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The source is the monography "My Way to Typography" (Lars Müller Publishers), where Weingart writes the following (p. 55): "Around six months before my apprenticeship at Ruwe Printing actually began [in 1959], I was introduced to the company's consulting designer, Karl-August Hanke, through whom I learned what was happening in the renowned school for art and design in Basel, the Kunstgewerbeschule. (...) One of Hofmann's first students in the early fifties, Hanke worked for a short time in the design office of Dorothea and Armin Hofmann and Karl Gerstner." Google Books shows some content of the book. So this Karl-August Hanke is definitely not the Nazi official (1903-1945), but rather this artist and graphic designer listed in the german national library, born 1914 and died 1994. --Manuel Schmalstieg (talk) 07:24, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]