Kurt Weidemann was born in Poland in 1922. After military service and imprisonment, he began an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Lübeck in 1950. In 1964, he was appointed as an art teacher at the Stuttgart Academy and became a professor in 1965. In the early 1980s, he was involved in the founding of the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, where he taught from 1983. In the early 1960s, together with Aaron Burns, he established the International Center for the Typographic Arts (ICTA) in NYC and was its president from 1966 to 1972. In addition to WHU, he taught at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from 1991. In 2003, he became an honorary member of the German Designer Club. Kurt Weidemann developed numerous corporate designs for Deutsche Bahn, Shell, Zeiss, Porsche, Aerospace, Mercedes Benz and others. He died on March 30, 2011.
