Arpad Schmidhammer
Arpad Schmidhammer , actually Arpath Emil Schmidhammer , (born February 12, 1857 in St. Joachimsthal , † May 13, 1921 in Munich ) was a German book illustrator and caricaturist .
Life
He was born on February 12, 1857 as the legitimate son of the art master Josef Schmidhammer and Carolina born. Lechner was born in house No. 10 in Sankt Joachimsthal and two days later he was baptized as a Roman Catholic under the name Arpath Emil Schmidhammer. His grandfather was the school teacher Jakob Schmidhammer in Hardenberg.
Arpad Schmidhammer worked a. a. for the magazine Jugend as one of the first illustrators, also for the anthology Knecht Ruprecht (1900) and the Jugendland . In addition to numerous contributions as a children's book illustrator, he also wrote his own children's books. Many of the books he illustrated were published by Jos. Scholz in Mainz, mostly in the series Scholz 'artist picture books , Scholz' artistic coloring books and Scholz 'artistic folk picture books . Schmidhammer also worked several times for Ensslin & Laiblin, the large Reutlingen book and games publisher, and Schaffstein in Cologne ( Schaffstein's blue ribbon ), and sporadically he has worked for a number of other publishers. During the First World War he published propaganda “war picture books”, but also made a name for himself as a keen political, particularly anti-clerical caricaturist of his time. Together with Hans Thoma , Schmidhammer designed costumes for the production of the Ring of the Nibelung at the Bayreuth Festival from 1896 .
Illustrated works
- Otto Roquette : Waldmeister's Bridal Trip. A fairy tale on the Rhine, wine and traveling , Stuttgart 1897
- Knecht Ruprecht: Illustrated yearbook for boys and girls. Published by Ernst Brausewetter . Vol. 2 : Cologne 1900
- Zafel Kern's Adventure , 1906
- Gustav Falke and Arpad Schmidhammer: Three Heroes , Mainz 1911
- Klein Heini , 1912
- Dear fatherland, may you be quiet! A war picture book with Knüttel verses , Mainz 1914
- Klein Heini II , 1915
- Hans and Pierre. A funny trench story , Mainz 1916
- Walther Single. Mosquitoes and snares. Drawings by Arpad Schmidhammer , Dresden 1918
Web links
- Literature by and about Arpad Schmidhammer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rübezahl and the Hirschberger Schneiderlein , a fairy tale by JK Aug. Musaeus in pictures by Arpad Schmidhammer, Fischer + Franke Berlin 1901
- Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: Little Red Riding Hood , drawn by Arpad Schmidhammer, Scholz Mainz 1904
- Arpad Schmidhammer in HeidICON Illustrations of the Flying Leaves
- Arpad Schmidhammer, illustration for Otto Roquette: Waldmeisters Brautfahrt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni, Jáchymov No. 8, pp. 446f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidhammer, Arpad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German caricaturist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Joachimsthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1921 |
| Place of death | Munich |