What is Friedrich Kurt Fiedler?
[[File:Kurt fiedler.jpg|thumb|Kurt Fiedler]] '''''Friedrich'' Kurt Fiedler''' (8 March 1894 – 11 November 1950) was a [[Germany|German]] [[graphic designer]]. During the [[Weimar Republic]] he became known for his book and poster designs. Kurt Fiedler was an active member of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]]. == Life == Kurt Fiedler was born in the little village Eichbusch near [[Dresden]] as a son of a [[carpenter]]. Together with the later known painter [[Hermann Glöckner]] he attended around 1910 the evening classes of the Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden.<ref>John Erpenbeck: ''Hermann Glöckner – Ein Patriarch der Moderne''. Der Morgen. Berlin 1983. p. 44-45.</ref> The students were educated in an aesthetic style, which was propagated by [[Deutscher Werkbund]]. From 1911 to 1915 Fiedler got a grant to study as master scholar of Richard Guhr and Josef Goller. During [[World War I]] Fiedler served as front-line soldier in [[France]]. After the war, [[Ferdinand Avenarius]] introduced him to the [[Dürerbund]]. Fiedler lived in the house of this leading cultural organization in [[Blasewitz]] for about 20 years. For the social democratic newspaper ''Dresdner Volkszeitung'' he designed the masthead.<ref>Gebrauchsgraphik. Jg. 2, 3/1925. Prof. H. K. Frenzel (Hrsg.). Verlag Phöenix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag GmbH Berlin</ref> The [[Nazi]]s hindered Kurt Fiedler because he was known as an active social democrat. During [[World War II]] Kurt Fiedler served as translator for French prisoners of war. He left army in 1942 because of poor health. Until the end of Nazi Germany he earned his money with technical drawings at the [[Dresden University of Technology]]. The home of Kurt Fiedler was completely destroyed during [[Bombing of Dresden in World War II]] on 13 February 1945. After the war, Kurt Fiedler belonged to the directorate of the association of fine arts in Dresden. He was artistic fellow worker of the Saxon regional board of the [[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]. As nearly all social democrats Fiedler be