Eugen Hartung

Eugen Hartung (born July 5, 1897 in Wäldi , Canton Thurgau , † August 18, 1973 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist .

The illustrator and painter Eugen Hartung grew up in an artistic family. His brother Wilhelm Hartung was a well-known painter and fresco artist, his son Willi Hartung also became a painter.

After attending the arts and crafts school in Zurich, study trips to France and Italy followed, where numerous landscape and portrait paintings were created.

Back in Switzerland, exhibitions followed. a. 1930 in the Kunsthaus Zurich.

However, he made his breakthrough as an illustrator, where he quickly became known to a large audience with his cover pictures for the popular youth magazine "Der Globi". He worked for this magazine from 1930 to 1945. In addition, Eugen Hartung created illustrations for books such as "Der Schützenkönig" by Ernst Eschmann , "Die Menschen von Seldwyla" by Gottfried Keller , "Unser Heimatland 1291" by A. Gasser and his most famous work as Book illustrator for the singing book Chömed Chinde, mir wänd singe , published in 1946 by the Maggi food factory , Kemptthal. This singing book is still published today and is remembered by several generations in Switzerland under the name "Maggi Singing Book".

Eugen Hartung achieved another great success with his numerous cat illustrations in human form, which were distributed as postcards all over the world. Later six books with his cat pictures were published.

In the 1930s, Eugen Hartung also created some murals for buildings in Zurich - often for kindergartens, but also for restaurants and the administrative building V. The murals that still exist today are listed.

His artistic versatility was also evident in his work as a set designer at the Zurich City Theater. With some school murals on the subject of traffic, his work also found its way into school lessons in the 1930s.

On the homepage about Eugen Hartung you can find an extensive overview of the work of Eugen Hartung.

literature

• Eugen Hartung . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 25 .

Web links

• Website Eugen Hartung
• Hartung, Eugene. In: Sikart