Franz Eder (cartoonist)

Franz Eder (2007)

Franz Eder (born March 20, 1942 in Munich ) is a German caricaturist , illustrator and quick draftsman .

Life

He learned cartography and graphics and then moved from Munich to Switzerland for ten years .

His first publications, cartoons and political caricatures , appeared in the Basler Nachrichten . From 1984 to 2000 he was a permanent contributor to the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter . Drawings by Eder have also appeared in Playboy , Penthouse , FOCUS , Medical Tribune and Munich newspapers. He caricatured in around 70 TV programs and as a quick draftsman at trade fairs in Germany, Austria , Italy and Switzerland. Around 6000 quick portraits were created.

From 1980 to 1984 he was the first chairman of the “Society of Fine Artists Munich eV” for painters , draftsmen and sculptors . In 1993 Franz Eder designed the set for Werner Schlierf's "Wälsungen" in the theater on the left of the Isar in Munich , and in 2005 the Ochsenbraterei's jubilee mug at the Munich Oktoberfest .

Caricature by Ludwig van Beethoven (2009)

In 1997 Eder donated 150 portraits of Munich city councilors and members of the state parliament to the Munich City Museum . In 2007 another donation of 186 portraits from the Munich artists' associations “Schwabinger Katakombe”, “Kaleidoskop” and Munich Tower Scribes as well as from presenters of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation to the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum , Munich.

In 2013 he was accepted into the community of Munich tower scribes .

Exhibitions

• 1996: “Wolpertinger and other Munich residents” in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum , Munich
• 2000: "Musiküsse", foyer of the Philharmonie am Gasteig , Munich
• 2004: "The Munich tower scribe in the caricature", Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, Munich
• 2005: "The Wolpertinger in Art", German Hunting and Fishing Museum . The exhibition was acquired in 2005 by the spirits manufacturer Hieke in Zwiesel and has since been on view in Zwiesel as a permanent exhibition
• 2006: “From a Bavarian perspective”, Olaf Gulbransson Museum , Tegernsee
• 2012: “Music Kisses”, Stadthalle, Germering
• 2014: “Ja so samma!”, Markus Wasmeier Farm and Winter Sports Museum , Schliersee

Books (selection)

• "Signs of the zodiac - not taken very seriously", Nebelspalter Verlag, Rorschach (Switzerland), 1991
• with Helmut Eckl : "Encounters - in the middle of the final years", Edition Schulz, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-93214221-7
• "The Munich tower writers in the caricature", Turmschreiber-Verlag, Pfaffenhofen , 2004, ISBN 3-930156-87-3
• with Christian Springer : "Fonsis boarisches Fuaßboi-Lexikon", Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund , Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-920821-87-4

with Alfons Schweiggert :

• "Musiküsse", Bayerland Verlag, Dachau, 1997
• "A Münchner in der Hölle", Buchendorfer Verlag , Munich, 1998, ISBN 3-927984-83-3
• "The Wolpertinger ask to table", Verlag Pfälzer Kunst, Landau-Pfalz, 2002, ISBN 3-922580-90-4
• "Dinner for one in Bavarian", Edition Nautilus , Hamburg, 2002, ISBN 3-89401-403-2
• "Peter and the Wolf in Bavarian", Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund , Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3939905257
• "Musiküsse", Husum-Verlag , Husum, 2010, ISBN 978-389251-249-3

Awards

• 2010 Bavarian poet thaler from the Munich tower scribe

Web links

• Official homepage of Franz Eder
• Literature by and about Franz Eder in the catalog of the German National Library