BF Dolbin

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Benedikt Fred Dolbin , born Pollak ( August 1, 1883 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 31, 1971 in New York City ) was an Austrian press illustrator .

Life

Dolbin studied at the TH Vienna from 1902 to 1910 and also gained artistic experience in cabaret Nachtlicht and with Arnold Schönberg . From 1910 to 1920 he worked for the construction company Waagner, Biro & Kurz , which made him indispensable during the First World War . In 1912 the name was officially changed to Dolbin . From 1912 to 1917 he was married to the musicologist Else Rethi, in 1918 he married the art historian Ninon Ausländer , from whom he was divorced in 1931, and in 1932 the actress Ellen Herz, with whom he and their stepdaughter Marion Sabisch, born in 1924, emigrated in 1935.

At the same time he was active in the Viennese artist group The Movement and gained his first experience as a draftsman (autodidactic). From 1924 his drawings appeared in the following newspapers: Der Wiener Tag , Der Abend , Arbeiter-Zeitung , Illustrated Wiener Extrablatt , Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung and others. a. In 1926 he moved to Berlin , where he worked as a newspaper cartoonist, art critic and book illustrator, including for the Berliner Tageblatt , the 8 o'clock evening paper , the day , the DAZ , the BZ am Mittag , the Berliner Börsen-Courier , the cross-section , by whose editor Hermann von Wedderkop he was also included in the illustration of the Berlin volume of the series Was nicht im “Baedeker” , and The Literary World .

Because of his Jewish origins, he was expelled from the Reich Press Chamber in 1933 and banned from his profession in 1935 , whereupon he emigrated to the USA . His wife first had to support the family as a hatter. In New York he continued to work as a draftsman for American and, after World War II, also for German media. However, he did not succeed in building on his successes in Germany.

literature

  • Will Schaber : BF Dolbin. The draftsman as a reporter . Saur, Munich 1976
  • Dolbin, Benedikt Fred (Pollak) , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . ed. from the Leo Baeck Institute , Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 69
  • Hans Bohrmann: Benedikt Fred Dolbin, the portraitist of half a century. In: Markus Behmer (Ed.): German Journalism in Exile 1933 to 1945: People, Positions, Perspectives; Festschrift for Ursula E. Koch . Lit, Munich 2000, pp. 134-144.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 221f.
  • Dolbin, Benedict Fred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5. Ed. Of the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 467-487.

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SURNAME Dolbin, BF
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dolbin, Benedikt Fred; Ben Bindol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian press illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1971
Place of death New York City