Bruno Hanich

Bruno Hanich (born October 6, 1902 in Turn , Teplitz district ; died November 13, 1963 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Bruno Hanich studied from 1922 to 1923 at the applied arts college in Teplitz. He then studied monumental painting for 4 years at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague . From 1929 he was employed as director at the Lippische Malerschule in Lemgo . In 1932 he switched to Katag advertising in Bielefeld , where he stayed until 1937. From 1937 on he worked as a painter and graphic artist for the German Propaganda Atelier and the German Press in Berlin . In 1943 he designed the poster Behind the Enemy Powers: The Jew .

After the end of the war he had to work as an artist for the Soviet occupying power. Here his commission consisted of oil paintings of Stalin and Soviet officers. After being denounced, the occupiers arrested him and took him to the Buchenwald concentration camp . At the end of 1946 the Russian occupation forces released him and he followed his family to the West.

Here he worked as a freelancer for the Lippische Landespresse and was also active as a poster painter. When he founded the Trias advertising agency in Hamburg in 1952, Axel Springer Verlag noticed him very quickly and commissioned him to create posters, promotional items and other work with the Mecki editorial label . Further advertising orders followed.

literature

• Buxtehude-Museum (Ed.) (2002): Mecki comes to Buxtehude, pictures and texts from the exhibition , Buxtehude.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Bernatzky: The National Socialist Anti-Semitism as reflected in the political poster. In: Günther Bernd Ginzel (Ed.): Antisemitism. Manifestations of hostility towards Jews yesterday and today. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Bielefeld 1991, p. 401, p. 415
   The poster is also available on the Internet; it will not be in the public domain until 2034.