Today we’d like to introduce you to Ludwig Mohr.
Ludwig, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
After College, everybody around me wanted to go and have a nice office, a pager and being important, I went Trade: Learned Handbookbinding in Germany to Master Degree, Typesetting and Letterpress in Switzerland to Master Degree, spend a couple of years moving about Europe, learning to deepen my Skills. Ia Paris I got a CAP (Certification professionel reliures soigneuse et bibliophile), spend Time with Hartmut Frielinghaus in Hamburg, printing for Horst Janssen and becoming a Printmaker on Copperplate (Etching, Engraving, Mezzotint). Always read, wrote and one of my mentors urged me to turn one of my papers into a more substantial piece. Earned me a Dr. in Book history, this is not a Ph.D.).
Got invited to give a Lecture at USC, Los Angeles, that weekend I was run over by a Driver under Influence and then spend some time in Surgery and recovery. That is how I ended up in Los Angeles, established my Company, worked for Artists, printed large sheets on my Handpress, build large Books and three dimension stuff, build Movie Props, e.g., the entire Nixon Library, all the Year Books in Veronica Mars, the Elf Book. While working on the Titanic Movie, after a long stretch of work, a Prop builder saw an Invite in my mail for a leisurely Lunch in Long Beach. That is where I met my Wife to be. We have been together since.
Has it been a smooth road?
Then you’re mid 20’s and you are just good at what you do and get 3 Trade Master degrees you have a lot of 50+ year old established Handwerksmeister who you offend by just being in existence. So it was a hard struggle to be what I am today, aside from a very few Mentors who cared for the Craft more than the BS and helped me along. I lectured as a Guest Lecturer at UCLA/DMA, Art Center and SCI-Arc , all in Los Angeles for some 15 years and have run into people who describe in Graphic Design how to create a surface on a Letter over 5 pages of Text than you can do it in 5 min or less on a Computer.
We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I worked for LA Book Arts, Inc from 1992 to 2010, then the Company folded, I pulled out my Equipment and set up as Krause Intaglio, I print Etchings for People https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Printing-Service/Krause-Intaglio-LLc-297045157149040/. I print Books Letterpress and bind them.
https://www.custommade.com/handbookbinding/by/wwwkrauseintagliocom/
I also have a Non Profit, the Bookinstitute where I teach Printmaking and such. I’m known for work which you can find in Exhibitions, Museums and such all over the World, fine Leather Binding, Edition Binding, Foil Stamping, Hand tooling, Printing large sheets on the handpress https://typography.guru/directory/artisan/krause-intaglio-r319/. What sets us apart is Customer Service, we source material worldwide, execute to high standards and have always exceeded the client’s expectations.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
I’m in Maywood, CA 90270, after leasing for a long Time and being ripped off by greedy Landlords, I found a place of my own, but recent enacted Weed Laws have made Real estate in this City now unobtainable, you can’t find a place to live under 2 k if you want anything other than a straight dump.
Pricing:
- A 8.5 x 11 inch Full Leather Binding starts at 365,00 this is genuine Leather from an Animal, not cut from a roll of yardage.
- A Full fleshed out french Binding with attached Boards, hand tooled, chemise and slipcase starts at 2150.00
- We make Film and metal backed Polymerplate up to 24 x30 inch (including FM Screen). Polymerplate is .65per square inch
Contact Info:
- Address: 4749-4751 E Slauson Ave, Maywood CA 90270
- Website: Krauseintaglio.com Bookinstitute.org
- Phone: 310 217 0400
- Email: typenut@gmail.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Printing-Service/Krause-Intaglio-LLc-297045157149040/
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/krause-intaglio-and-custom-bindery-maywood-2
- Other: https://www.custommade.com/by/wwwkrauseintagliocom/
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