Darwin by Johannes Hemleben (Alianza Editorial)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Nov 13th, 2022. Artwork published in
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Daniel Gil wasn’t just an inventive and versatile type user. He had a knack for colors, too. In the 1950s, Gil had studied in Ulm under Otl Aicher. For the 1972 Olympic Games, his former professor worked with similarly captivating color combinations including lots of green.
This cover design from 1971 is for a biography of Charles Darwin, written by Johannes Hemleben (1899–1984), who was both a biologist and a pastor of the Christian Community, an esoteric Christian denomination inspired by anthroposophy. Originally published in Rowohlt’s “rororo-Bildmonographien” series, it was translated to the Spanish by Carmen Paredes de Castro and included in Alianza Editorial’s “Ciencia y Técnica” section of their pocketbook series.
