August Hajduk

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Reklamemarke Hajduk on behalf of Adele Schreiber-Krieger for the German Society for parent and child rights and their 1913 in Berlin organized the exhibition "In the realm of housewife and mother"
One of the motifs designed by Hajduk in a newspaper advertisement for the fashion department of the KaDeWe in Berlin (etching)

August Hajduk , also August Haiduk (born July 1, 1880 in Gleichenberg , Styria , † after 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian graphic artist , portrait painter , illustrator and type designer .

life and work

Haiduk was the son of a shoemaker and initially studied at the Graz drawing academy. In the spring of 1900, he registered for a course of study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , which he did not take. Instead, he attended Wilhelm von Rümann's school of sculpture .

He then worked in Berlin. There he worked for the A. Jandorf & Co. department store chain, among others . For the opening of their Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin (1907), Jandorf placed full-page image advertisements in daily newspapers, designed by Hajduk. For Jandorf as well as for other clients, also outside of Berlin, Hajduk created not only posters but also advertising stamps and bookplates . For the Berlin chemical company Otto Ring & Co., which produced the all-purpose glue Syndetikon , he designed posters and advertising stamps, as well as a "Syndetikon construction game" as a promotional item, which was awarded at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911 and sat together with Gustav Lilienthal in the jury of a Syndetikon building game school competition. He also designed posters for the Harlan works in Johannisthal near Berlin. Hajduk also worked for MJ Emden's Oberpollinger department store in Munich from Berlin.

In 1910 he designed the Haiduk-Antiqua font for the Bauersche foundry in Frankfurt am Main

Illustrations by Hajduk's hand can be found in the following books, among others:

  • German force. (Series of publications). Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna: Collignon, 1915 (each cover drawing)
  • Eugen Illés : The three fathers . Berlin: Continent, 1910 (illustrations)
  • Gerhard Herwigh: All about love: diary poetry . Darmstadt, Alexander Koch, around 1912 (writing, images and cover)
  • "Album from Berlin, 65 views based on snapshots". Parnassus Verlag, Berlin, year unknown. (Cover drawings)

Hajduk also produced several caricatures for the satirical magazine " Ulk ", often Kaiser Wilhelm II. , But also others, such as B. 1908 the painter and director of the Academy of Fine Arts Anton von Werner . In war number 40 of the "Ulk", published on May 7, 1915, there is e.g. B. a caricature hostile to Russia.

In October 1916 he was accepted into the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter , initially on the Tyrolean Front, in the summer of 1917 on the Eastern Front in Galicia and in the autumn of 1917 on the Romanian Front. In 1918 he worked again in South Tyrol . During his employment as a war painter in World War I, he mainly painted portraits of officers and crews for the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops .

The last known mention of August Hajduk dates from 1918. Today, Hajduk's works can be found in the holdings of the Army History Museum , the German Historical Museum , the Folkwang Museum , the Gutenberg Museum and the Hans Sachs Collection .

Works (selection)

  • Field pilot Captain Walter von Lux. 1917, oil on canvas, 64 × 50 cm, Army History Museum Vienna
  • Field pilot, platoon leader Rudolf Simonchics. 1917, tempera on cardboard, 48.5 × 41.2 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Field pilot Rudolf Segner. 1917, tempera on cardboard, 49.1 × 41.7 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Three officers of the Fliegerkompanie No. 36. 1917, tempera on paper, 48.2 × 63.2 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Three officers of the Fliegerkompanie No. 36. 1917, tempera on paper, 48.1 × 63.3 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna
  • Three officers of the Fliegerkompanie No. 36. 1917, tempera on paper, 47 × 63.2 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna

literature

  • Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): "Flying 90/71". Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings . Vienna 1971.
  • Paul Westheim : August Hajduk. Book and art print. 1910, pp. 99-102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flying 90/71. Exhibition catalog, Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971, p. 25 f.
  2. ↑ 02137 Matriculation Book of the AdbK Munich 1884-1920, No. 02137
  3. ↑ Hans Joachim Reichhardt, Landesarchiv Berlin (ed.): Gustav Lilienthal, 1849–1933: Master builder, life reformer, flight technician ... (exhibition catalog). Stapp-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 87-88 u. Fig. P. 178.
  4. ↑ The aircraft manufacturer founded by Wolfgang Harlan produced monoplane .
  5. ↑ Illustration of a poster (No. 2.3.61) in: Norbert Götz, Clementine Schack-Simitzis, Gabriele Schickel, Münchner Stadtmuseum (ed.): Die Prinzregentenzeit. Munich around 1900. Verlag Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33397-4 , p. 95.
  6. ↑ Internet site (PDF file; 400 kB) of the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach am Main
  7. ↑ Helmut Caspar: The legs of the Hohenzollern: What primary students of the Joachimsthal School wrote about Siegesallee and what Wilhelm II thought of the essays . Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 152–153.
  8. ↑ Illustration based on a copy from the German Historical Museum in: Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (Ed.): Our Russians, our Germans: Pictures from the Other 1800 to 2000. P. 30.
  9. ^ According to corrections to the bookplate catalog of the Gutenberg Museum
personal data
SURNAME Hajduk, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haiduk, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian graphic artist and type designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleichenberg , Styria
DATE OF DEATH 20th century