Erich Wilke (painter)

Erich Wilke (born March 4, 1879 in Braunschweig , † April 30, 1936 in Munich ) was a German political cartoonist , illustrator and etcher . He is the brother of the cartoonists Rudolf and Hermann Wilke .

life and work

Erich Wilke was one of six children of the carpenter Johannes Wilke and his wife from the village of Volzum , southeast of Braunschweig. Through his older brother Rudolf he came to the Munich magazine Jugend in 1900 , for which he was one of their regular draftsmen for over 30 years until 1936. Erich Wilke was also occasionally a draftsman for the political- satirical magazines Kladderadatsch and Funny Papers .

literature

Horst Ludwig Bruckmann: Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4, Munich 1994, p. 476.

Individual evidence

^ Brigitte Regel-Bellinger : Edgar Steiger 1858-1919. Life and work of the German-Swiss writer. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1738-2 , p. 231, FN 2.
↑ Gerd Spies : Rudolf Wilke (1873-1908). A draftsman of the Simplicissimus. Working reports from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig No. 23, Braunschweig 1973, p. 5.
↑ Bernd A. Gülker: The distorted modernity: the caricature as a popular art criticism in German satirical magazines. LIT Verlag, Münster 2001. ISBN 978-3825852245 , p. 186.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilke, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German draftsman and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1936
Place of death	Munich

[1] Brigitte Regel-Bellinger : Edgar Steiger 1858-1919. Life and work of the German-Swiss writer. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1738-2 , p. 231, FN 2.

[2] Gerd Spies : Rudolf Wilke (1873-1908). A draftsman of the Simplicissimus. Working reports from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig No. 23, Braunschweig 1973, p. 5.

[3] Bernd A. Gülker: The distorted modernity: the caricature as a popular art criticism in German satirical magazines. LIT Verlag, Münster 2001. ISBN 978-3825852245 , p. 186.