Emil men

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Emil Karl Männer - occasionally written Maenner - (born December 2, 1893 in Munich , † April 18, 1990 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian socialist , graphic artist and publisher .

Life

The son of the lithographer and owner of a lithographic publishing house for art and advertising and from 1907 a commercial printing company in Munich, Emil Männer, and Josefine Maria Theresia, née. Burghart, grew up in Munich and attended, among other things, the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1904 to 1907 . No information is available about his further training. He presumably completed an apprenticeship in a bank, because a job as a bank clerk in Munich is mentioned. He became a member of the USPD and, together with Ernst Toller and others, spoke out against the communists for cooperation with bourgeois circles. After brief military service in the last year of the war, he was a member of the “Revolutionary Workers' Council” from November 1918, after the establishment of the Munich Soviet Republic in April 1919, head of the “Revolutionary Bank Council for Bavaria” and - with Tobias Akselrod , among others - “People's Representative” in the “Economic Commission” für das Finanzwesen ”and second chairman of the“ Executive Council of Works and Soldiers' Councils in Munich ”, which also included Max Levien , Eugen Leviné and Willi Budich under the pseudonym Dietrich and Wilhelm Duske (1883–1944). Because of political differences with Levien and Leviné, he resigned on April 26, 1919 from all offices. After the suppression of the Soviet Republic on May 2, he was arrested in Tegernsee on May 21, 1919 , but - like Max Levien - was able to leave for Vienna, while Eugen Leviné was tried and executed for high treason. It was not until 1921 that his mother confirmed his stay in Vienna to the Munich registration office.

In Vienna, men worked as a commercial artist in a studio in Gussenbauergasse 5/9 in Alsergrund. In 1924 he was a member of the puppet theater "Der Gong" together with the doll maker and costume designer Lotte Pritzel and the Hungarian sculptor and painter Béni Ferenczy . The contact to both artists probably already existed in Munich: Lotte Pritzel had been among the Schwabing bohemians since around 1910 and, among other things, showed works in her studio at Kaulbachstrasse 69 in 1913; Béni Ferenczy was enrolled in the class of the sculptor Balthasar Schmitt at the Munich Art Academy since October 1909 under the name “Benjamin von Ferenczy” ; In 1919 he got involved in the Hungarian Soviet Republic .

As a commercial artist, Männer provided drafts for small posters, advertisements, book covers, brochures as well as furnishing and furnishing modern illustrated magazines and industrial catalogs. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, he worked for the company Dr. Paul Englaender paint and varnish factories in Neulengbach and Vienna. From 1928 to 1938, Männer was a member of the “Association of Austrian Commercial Graphics (BÖG)”.

Even after the Second World War, men showed exhibits at the exhibition of the Association of Austrian Commercial Graphics. Professionally after 1945 he was active in the environment of the KPÖ , u. a. as editor of the "Bauernkalender" published by her and the "Calendar Publishing House" belonging to the Globus Group. In 1954/55 he founded the Viennese facsimile graphic publisher "Editio Totius Mundi", which was sold in 1985. It continues to exist in Vienna under the company name "Erika Grünauer Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG editio totius mundi - Kunstverlag".

In 2011 the Austrian National Library acquired part of Emil Männer's graphic estate, including film posters and posters for tourism and product advertising from the 1920s and 1930s.

literature

  • Association of Austrian Commercial Graphics (ed.): Graphisches Handbuch Österreichs Nutzgraphiker, Gerlach & Wiedling; Vienna 1950, p. 90
  • Heinrich Fuchs (ed.): The Austrian painters born in 1881–1900, Volume 2, M – Z. 1977
  • Dieter Dreetz, Klaus Geßner, Heinz Sperling: Armed fighting in Germany 1918–1923. 1988, p. 50
  • General artist lexicon. Bio-Bibliographical Index A – Z, de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24563-3
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 408–410 (Fig.)
  • Flóra Király: The years of emigration to Vienna by the Hungarian sculptor Béni Ferenczy (1921–1932); Master's thesis at the Univ. Vienna, Vienna 2013, p. 68
  • Joachim Lilla: Maenner, Emil , in: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945, URL: < https://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/maenner-emil > (October 29th 2014)
  • Man's commercial estate - plakatkontor.de (online)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1904/05 (up to and including 1906/07)
  2. ^ Documents in the Austrian Theater Museum, Vienna
  3. ↑ 03826 Benjam. von Ferenczy, matriculation book 1884-1920, http://matrikel.adbk.de/matrikel/mb_1884-1920/jahr_1909/matrikel-03826 (accessed on 07/11/16)
  4. ↑ ÖNB Newsletter No. 1 / March 2011; P. 9 (online)
personal data
SURNAME Men, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Men, Emil Karl (full name); Men, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian socialist, graphic artist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1990
Place of death Vienna