Anton Elfinger
Anton Elfinger (born January 15, 1821 in Vienna ; † January 19, 1864 there ) was an Austrian doctor and draftsman. As a draftsman he also published under the pseudonym Cajetan . His "satyrical pictures" for the Wiener Theaterzeitung became famous .
Anton Elfinger was born on January 15, 1821, the son of the pharmacist Josef Elfinger. During his school days he took private drawing lessons from the painter Matthias Ranftl . In Josefstadt he attended high school and the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Anna . After completing his training at the academy, under pressure from his mother, he studied medicine from 1839 and obtained his doctorate in 1845. med. He later became a secondary doctor with Ferdinand von Hebra at the Vienna General Hospital. From 1849 to 1858 he was a university draftsman for medical literature; the Atlas of Skin Diseases , which he illustrated , became a highly regarded work. Elfinger was also a well-respected cartoonist, who from 1842 under the pseudonymCajetan published in the Wiener Theaterzeitung . His "costume pictures", drawings of actors in their roles, are well-known, and humorous pictures come from him, such as a "folk calendar" and a card game (tarot) that dealt with political issues. As a cartoonist, Elfinger was influenced by Grandville , Gavarni, and Cham . He died at the age of 43 on January 19, 1864 with a "pulmonary hemorrhage" of tuberculosis .
Elfingerweg , named after him in 1964, is a street in Vienna's 22nd district of Donaustadt , which was previously called Kapellenweg .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Elfinger, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 401 ( digitized version ).
- Margarethe Poch-Kalous: Cajetan. The life of the Viennese doctor and cartoonist Dr. Anton Elfinger. Vienna 1966.
- Sigmund Bankl: Student motifs in the series of images from Adolf Bäuerle's “Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung” and their artists. In: then and now . 33: 9-46 (1988).
- Maurice Horn: The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. 2nd Edition. Chelsea House, Philadelphia 1999, pp. 180, 257.
- Wolfgang Regal, Michael Nanut: Medic, Draftsman, Moulageur (Narrenturm 2). In: Doctors Week. Vol. 19 (2005), No. 9.
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| SURNAME | Elfinger, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cajetan (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1864 |
| Place of death | Vienna |