Elisabeth Kmölniger

Elisabeth Kmölniger (symbol Kmö) (* 26. October 1947 in Radenthein , Carinthia , † 24. January 2018 in Vienna ) was an Austrian comic - illustrator and - writer and photographer and book illustrator .

life and career

Kmölniger studied painting from 1968 to 1973 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1978 she published the first cartoons in exhibitions , then she worked as a freelance draftsman and photographer. From 1978 onwards she drew the title pages of all issues for the international magazine FORVM (Vienna) for several years , plus a full-page cartoon as a frontispiece in each issue until it was discontinued (end of 1995) . With numerous partial cartoons as well as illustrations for contributions by other authors, it gave the FORVM a visually unmistakable continuity despite three alternating editors - Michael Siegert, Gerhard Oberschlick (twice) and Michael Seeber - as well as a change of owner and publisher until the end of 1995. In Berlin (West), where Kmölniger had lived since 1980, she also worked for media such as “Joseph & Suleika” or the taz, and devoted herself to the illustration of books.

Kmölniger committed suicide in January 2018 at the age of 70 years on the Vienna Central Cemetery suicide .

Works

In case of emergency , Elefanten Press , Berlin, 1982
Everything will be fine , Comix + Cartoon series , Berlin, 1984
Schnell im Biss , Rixdorfer Verlagsanstalt , Berlin, 1984, together with other artists (catalog for the exhibition in Berlin)
Drawings , two thousand and one , Frankfurt, 1987
Das rousende Leben , Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt, 1988. ISBN 3-8218-2106-X .
Weird Sisters - Comics from the depths of the German-speaking area , Elefanten Press , Berlin, 1993, together with other artists

Individual evidence

^ FORVM homepage , accessed on July 21, 2018.
^ For example, Gabriele Goettle : German customs. Explorations in East and West. With photographs by Elisabeth Kmölniger. Eichborn, The Other Library, Vol. 78, Frankfurt am Main 1991. ISBN 3-8218-4078-1 .
↑ Elisabeth Kmölniger died . jungewelt.de , January 29, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2018.
^ Antonio Fian: Lines and Edges. An outline drawing in words. In honor of Elisabeth Kmölniger. In: The bridge. Carinthia's cultural magazine No. 7, Klagenfurt, June / July 2018, p. 11.

personal data
SURNAME	Kmölniger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian comic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Radenthein , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 2018
Place of death	Vienna

[1] FORVM homepage , accessed on July 21, 2018.

[2] For example, Gabriele Goettle : German customs. Explorations in East and West. With photographs by Elisabeth Kmölniger. Eichborn, The Other Library, Vol. 78, Frankfurt am Main 1991. ISBN 3-8218-4078-1 .

[3] Elisabeth Kmölniger died . jungewelt.de , January 29, 2018, accessed on January 29, 2018.

[4] Antonio Fian: Lines and Edges. An outline drawing in words. In honor of Elisabeth Kmölniger. In: The bridge. Carinthia's cultural magazine No. 7, Klagenfurt, June / July 2018, p. 11.