Claus Arnold (artist)

Claus Arnold (born October 17, 1919 in Munich , † April 1, 2014 in Hornburg , Schladen-Werla municipality ) was a German draftsman , caricaturist and painter .

Claus Arnold was the third of four children of the Munich-based Simplicissimus draftsman Karl Arnold and his wife Anne-Dora , nee. Volquardsen born. From 1937 to 1940 he studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Munich . From 1939 to 1945 he did military service with the Air Force Intelligence Force. From 1946 to 1950 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he mainly attended the lithography and etching workshop. From 1950 he worked as a freelance (advertising) graphic artist.

Claus Arnold was one of the first in Germany to adopt the new style of American illustrators from The New Yorker magazine, such as Saul Steinberg or the English illustrator Ronald Searle .

Since the late 1960s, Claus Arnold worked as a freelance graphic artist and painter. However, since the exhibition in 1977 he lived very secluded in Hornburg, Lower Saxony, where he died at the age of 94 in April 2014.

literature

• Claus Arnold's Autowelt , Munich: Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag 1962
• Claus Arnold. Satires and arabesques , with texts by Eberhard Roters , exhibition catalog Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover, 1977. ISBN 3-921752-03-5