Ernst Jazdzewski

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Ernst Jazdzewski (born August 14, 1907 in Berlin ; † May 29, 1995 there ) was a German illustrator , caricaturist and press illustrator .

Life

As a working-class boy, he experienced how the Communist Party of Germany was founded in the fire of the German November Revolution. Ernst Jazdzewski organized himself into the Communist Youth at the age of fourteen in 1921 . He graduated from elementary school and began an apprenticeship as an ivory carver. During his evening studies from 1922 to 1928 at the Berlin Kunstgewerbeschule Ost in Andreasstrasse, he created his first graphics for illegal company and residential newspapers, as well as hectographed calls and leaflets that were produced on wax matrices . Later he became a permanent employee of the FDJ magazine drum and the magazine of the communist youth "The young guard". During this period he also produced his first political posters and book illustrations for the publishers “Jugendinternationale” and “Junge Garden”. With these drawings he has succeeded in enriching the text with expressive visual artistic solutions. Jazdzewski became a member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists in 1928 . In 1932 he joined the KPD and worked in the graphic studio of the KPD Central Committee until his arrest in 1933. He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison and was later placed under police supervision. He then worked with other comrades, camouflaged, in an advertising and exhibition design studio. From 1941 to 1945 he did his military service with subsequent imprisonment.

After the war he became a permanent political draftsman for New Germany . His graphics, signed “Eja”, soon became popular and popular. From 1945 he worked on the "Working Group of Socialist Artists" founded by Fritz Duda . In 1947 he became a lecturer and from 1956 until his retirement in 1973, professor for illustration and figurative drawing at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . Ernst Jazdzewski was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and chairman of the Berlin district association. Study trips took him to China in 1955 and to Indonesia and Burma in 1962.

Works

  • 1948 Farewell to Karl Liebknecht, brush drawing
  • 1949 strike, brush drawing
  • 1958 Imperialism, Sahara Oil, drawing
  • 1970 VI Lenin, printmaking
  • he also illustrated numerous books and books for young people

Honors

Exhibitions

  • 1953, 1958, 1962, 1972 and 1977 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1958 district art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1959 Connected to our new life. Ten years of fine arts in the GDR, German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1965 Intergrafik, Berlin
  • 1968 winner of history, Halle (Saale)
  • 1970 In the spirit of Lenin, Berlin
  • 1971 Realistic graphics, Leipzig
  • 1974 drawing in the GDR, Dresden
  • 1979 Book illustration in the GDR, Berlin
  • 1980 Berlin retrospective, ibid
  • 1983 Karl Marx - artist confessions, Berlin, Magdeburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig
  • 1985 On common paths, Berlin

Publications

  • Benno Pludra : Gustel, Tapp and the others , drawings by Ernst Jazdzewski (= Colorful Bear Books , Volume 2), 3rd edition, Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1955 (first edition 1953), secondary edition: German National Library, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2014, DNB 105011633X Full text online digitized, free of charge, 158 pages in viewer.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Notes: Exercise of rights by VG WORT (§ 13d UrhWahrnG) Long-term archiving guaranteed
personal data
SURNAME Jazdzewski, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jadzewski, Ernst; Jadszewski, Ernst; Jadczewski, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator, caricaturist and press illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1995
Place of death Berlin