{"id":20,"date":"2012-05-14T00:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:04","slug":"j-i-biegeleisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/j-i-biegeleisen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob (Jack) Israel Biegeleisen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bold\" style=\"color: ff3097;\">Jacob (Jack) Israel Biegeleisen<\/span> (1909-1999) was a Polish-American screenprinter, educator, and author of several books on the screenprinting process.<\/p>\n<p>His book, Silk Screen Stencil Craft as a Hobby, originally published in 1935, inspired many hobbyists to become successful screenprinters. Biegeleisen organized classes in screenprinting in the New York City high schools; was an instructor at the New York School of Industrial Art, and supervised the screenprinting department of the High School of Art and Design where he served as the Chairman of the Art Department.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote 7 books on screenprinting are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Silk Screen Stencil Craft as a Hobby, 1935, <span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">Jacob I. Biegeleisen<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Complete Book of Silk Screen Printing Production, J. I. Biegeleisen and Carl S. Auerbach<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Screen Printing: A Contemporary Guide to the Technique of Screen Printing for Artists, Designers, and Craftsmen, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Silk Screen Printing Process, J. I. Biegeleisen, and Ernest Jere Busenbark<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Silk Screen Stenciling as a Fine Art, 1942 and expanded in 1958 as Silk Screen Techniques, <span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">J. I Biegeleisen and <\/span><span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whoswhoinscreenprinting.com\/max-arthur-cohn\/\">Max Arthur Cohn<\/a>, with an introduction by Rockwell Kent.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Silk Screen Techniques, 1958, expanded from Silk Screen Stenciling as a Fine Art, 1942, J. I. Beiegeleisen and <a href=\"http:\/\/whoswhoinscreenprinting.com\/max-arthur-cohn\/\">Max Arthur Cohn<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Design and Print Your Own Posters, <span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">Jacob I. Biegeleisen<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Biegeleisen also wrote other books on art and typefaces and more, such as these fourteen books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The ABC of Lettering. The book of 100 type typeface alphabets A guide to better lettering, J. I. Biegeleisen, the 5th Edition was issued in 1940, and reprinted by Harper &amp; Row of New York in 1976, and was reprinted again in 1965 by The Signs of the Times Publishing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Art Directors&#8217; Workbook of Type Faces, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Book of Sixty Hand-Lettered Alphabets, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Poster Design, <span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">J. I. Biegeleisen, 1945, Greenberg Publisher, New York<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Classic Type Faces And How To Use Them: Including 91 Complete Fonts, J. I. Biegeleisen and Dan X. Solo, Reprinted in 1995 by Dover Press.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Job Resumes: How to Write Them, How to Present Them, Preparing for Interviews, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Make Your Job Interview A Success, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How To Write Your First Professional Resume, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How to Go About Getting a Job With a Future, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Antique Alphabets, a Collection of Fifty Old Type Favorites, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Handbook of Type Faces and Lettering, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Careers in Commercial Art, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Poster Gallery: The best posters of 1946, <span class=\"a-size-small a-color-secondary\">J. I. Biegeleisen<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Careers and Opportunities in Teaching, J. I. Biegeleisen<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Biegeleisen was a knowledgeable practitioner of the screenprinting process, not only in the classroom but in working in the field. In his own words, from <em>The Complete Book of Silk Screen Printing Production<\/em>;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My knowledge of the subject is, however, not limited to reading about it in books or consulting with others. My own personal experience as a daily practitioner in the field goes back more than twenty-five <\/em>years<em> and extends to the present day. During my long <\/em>internship<em>, I have had occasion to work in every department of the screen shop: as <\/em>a printer<em>, paint mixer, layout and lettering artist, stencil man, manager, estimator, <\/em>and<em> consultant.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob (Jack) Israel Biegeleisen (1909-1999) was a Polish-American screenprinter, educator, and author of several books on the screenprinting process. His book, Silk Screen Stencil Craft as a Hobby, originally published in 1935, inspired many hobbyists to become successful screenprinters. Biegeleisen organized classes in screenprinting in the New York City high schools; was an instructor at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}