Carl Olof Petersen
Carl Olof Petersen (born September 19, 1881 in Malmö ; † October 18, 1939 in Ulricehamn ) was a Swedish artist , illustrator and graphic designer who worked in Munich and Dachau .
life and work
In 1903 Carl Olof Petersen moved from Sweden to Dachau. He lived for a long time in the district of Moosschwaige. He was a student of Adolf Hölzel and became a member of the Dachau artists' colony . He was married to the non-fiction author Elly Petersen (Ella Hirschfeld-Leßer) from Berlin . Petersen illustrated numerous children's books and drew for the weekly Jugend and the satirical magazine Simplicissimus . He also created advertising posters and postcards, many with Munich motifs and signed with the abbreviation OST. In 1937 he returned to Sweden with his wife because of his poor health.
Books
- Carl Olof Petersen: My Lexicon of Life. Munich 1934, OCLC 185310606
- Carl Olof Petersen, Elly Petersen: The Moosschwaige. A book by young people and animals, love of life, flowers and the sun. Knorr et Hirth, Munich 1933, OCLC 877939860
Honors
A street in Dachau is named after him.
Web links
- Simplicissimus online with name search
- Carl O. Petersen in the German National Library
- Carl Olof Petersén, a Swede in Dachau , on "The Linosaurus - A Blog on the lesser Gods and Godesses at linoleum and woodblock printing", December 21, 2012
- Works by Carl Olof Petersen on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Carl Olof Petersen , at German Expressionism. Works from the Collection , moma
- Harold Marcuse: Legacies of Dachau. The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001, ISBN 3-89129-800-5 , pp. 17 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often improbable. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 414 (preview) . - Better an artist than a businessman. In: merkur.de, October 18, 2014, online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petersen, Carl Olof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petersen, Carl O .; Petersen, Carl Olaf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1939 |
| Place of death | Ulricehamn |