Elsa Eisgruber

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Elsa (Elisabeth) Eisgruber (born March 22, 1887 in Nuremberg ; † December 1, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German painter , author and illustrator .

Life

Elsa Eisgruber studied sculpture at the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg under Hans Perathoner and at the art academies in Nuremberg and Munich . She learned to paint by herself.

She preferred to paint religious subjects, wrote and illustrated children's books.

In 1926 Else Eisgruber was recruited as an illustrator by Herbert Stuffer for his newly founded publishing house from the “Bilderbuchfabrik” Stalling and immediately published an important children's book called Sause Kreisel sause .

Her works are compared with works by Elsa Beskow , Ernst Kutzer , Sibylle von Olfers , Else Wenz-Vietor and Fritz Baumgarten .

She was married to Hans Schrott-Fiechtl .

Works (selection)

  • Else Eisgruber's silhouettes and drawings. M. Gladbach, Cooling 1921
  • Ludwig Finckh , Elsa Eisgruber: The elves. A romantic fairy tale. Law publishing house, Munich, 1922
  • House servants with pictures. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1925
  • Speedy roundabout. Stuffer, Berlin 1926
  • Rosemary and thyme. Children's games, animals and flowers in spring. The children's games second book. Stuffer, Berlin 1928
  • About Mäuschen and Mettwürstchen. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1930
  • Old German Advent and Christmas carols. Ullstein, Berlin 1934
  • The trip to wonderland. Fairy tale German poet. Dreßler, Berlin undated (approx. 1940)
  • Rosemary and thyme: children's games, animals and flowers in spring. Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig 1949
  • Dear sun, dear earth. A children's song book with pictures. Christian Morgenstern, Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg, undated (approx. 1960)

Illustrations (selection)

  • Elisabeth Lehner: summer days. Poems by children, animals and flowers. Müller & Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1933
  • Friedrich Rückert : Little man in the goose. Reichenau, Leipzig 1938
  • The Goose Girl: Fairy Tales / Grimm. Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig 1947
  • The seven ravens: fairy tale / Grimm. Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig 1947
  • Eva von Eckardt: Tulipcoat the dwarf hero. Compression by Karl Immermann. Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig 1947
  • Johanna Huber : Crèche Games with the 1-3 year old child. Suggestions for new mothers. Ravensburger, Ravensburg 1947
  • Frederick William Faber : Angel stories. More, Berlin 1947
  • Romantic fairy tale from the novel Poets and their journeymen. Ernst Wunderlich, Leipzig 1949
  • Suse Wintgen: Of trees and flowers, children and animals. Stalling, Oldenburg, undated (approx. 1960)

Selection of auctioned works

  • Illustration designs for Advent and Christmas carols . Watercolor, ink
  • Red Madonna. Watercolor, pencil / paper
  • Childlike dancer. Watercolor, pencil / paper
  • In a summer landscape, Mary with the baby Jesus. Watercolor, pencil / paper
  • Knitting girl, next to it a Christmas angel and a mini Christmas tree. Watercolor, pencil, 1940

Services

1953 Awarded the Great Art Prize of the City of Berlin

literature

  • Barbara Murken: Elsa Eisgruber: an “out of date” picture book artist of the 20th century. In: From the second-hand bookshop, issues 1–6. Publishers of the Booksellers Association, 2003, p. 274 ff.
  • Fedor Bochow: Eisgruber, Elsa . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 33, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22773-6 , p. 66.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 2: The Weimar Republic 1918–1933 . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023237-0 , p. 210 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
  2. ^ Print work group image, paper, Christa Pieske: work group image print paper . Waxmann Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8309-6656-2 , p. 81 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
  3. ^ Elsa Eisgruber: Else Eisgrubers silhouettes and drawings . Kühlen, 1921 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Elsa Eisgruber: Rosemary and Thyme: Children's Games, Animals and Flowers in Spring . Ernst Wunderlich, 1995 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
  5. ^ Elsa Eisgruber: Vom Mäuschen and Mettwürstchen . Stalling, 1930 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2017]).
  6. ^ Art Prize Berlin Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948 | Academy of Arts, Berlin. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ From the second-hand bookshop . Verlag der Buchhandler-Vereinigung GmbH., 2003 ( google.de [accessed on December 1, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Eisgruber, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisgruber, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1968
Place of death Berlin