Erik Theodor Lässig

Erik Theodor Lässig (born January 31, 1928 in Munich ; † September 1, 2015 there ) was a German illustrator. He is considered one of the most important protagonists in the graphic design of science and technology.

After graduating from high school in 1948, he trained as a specialist illustrator for science and technology. From the beginning, the thematic focus of his work has been aerospace. The first professional station of Erik Theodor Lässig was that of a freelance illustrator and later that of the graphic director of the German Rocket and Space Museum in Stuttgart. From 1955 to 1958 he worked as a graphic artist at the Linhof camera factory . He then went to Bölkow Developments KG and was employed there or in the successor companies MBB and DASA until 1991.

Further artistic activities were in 1965 the participation in the design of the space hall of the International Transport Exhibition (IVA) in Munich, in 1980 the professorship at the Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg and in 2000 the painting of the Neptune large rocket concept by Heinz Hermann Koelle in the Berlin year 2000 Exhibition Seven Hills . A year later, a heart attack with respiratory failure ended the further work as an artist.

His pictures can be found in many magazines and books by space pioneers such as Wernher von Braun , Hermann Oberth and Eugen Sänger . Some motifs were also shown in the Space Night of Bavarian television . Erik Theodor Lässig's artistic estate is in the collections of the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Web links

• www.retro-futurismus.de
• www.danefield.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deutsches Museum: Visions of Technology in the 20th Century: Subproject 2: Graphic work by Erik Theodor Lässig
2. ^ Deutsches Museum: Visions of Technology: Atlantropa, graphic work by Erik Theodor Lässig
3. ↑ Report volume 10 years Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, pp. 130f