Franz Krausz
Franz Krausz , also Kraus, (born May 13, 1905 in St. Pölten , Austria-Hungary ; died April 7, 1998 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli graphic and poster artist.
Life
Franz Krausz was one of five children of the painter Hermann Krausz and Rosalie Mandl. His brother Emil Krausz , born in 1897, became a painter, his twin brother emigrated to the USA in 1939, his brother Otto Krausz became a victim of the Holocaust .
In 1910 the family moved to Graz . Krausz stayed in his older brother's studio. He became a member of the Jewish sports club Makkabi and the youth club Blau-Weiß . He attended the commercial academy and from 1923 did an apprenticeship in bookselling in Vienna. At Löwit-Buchverlag he did the window dressing.
From 1926 Krausz worked in Berlin as a graphic artist at Friedrich Ernst Huebsch-Verlag (Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna) and created constructivist book covers and advertising materials, mostly for architecture volumes. In his evening studies he attended the Reimann art school with Max Hertwig , where he also met his future wife, the photographer Anni Krausz. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in Germany in 1933, they emigrated to Barcelona , where he created film posters for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . In October 1934 they took the ship from Marseille to Jaffa . Krausz lived for the next 60 years in a two-room apartment on Beit Hasho'eva Street in Tel Aviv.
In Palestine / Israel Krausz became one of the leading commercial graphic artists and worked for the cigarette brand Dubek , the Chocolate Elite and the Levante Fair of 1936. In 1935 he was a co-founder of the "Association of Jewish Advertising Artists in Palestine". He worked with the photographer Jakob Rosner , and his wife also created photo templates for his posters.
In 1936 he produced a series of posters with landscape motifs under the title Visit Palestine on behalf of the Palestine Tourism Society , which was intended to promote visits and Jewish immigration. The pictures and with them the graphic artist Krausz were "rediscovered" in 1995 by graphic designer David Tartakover . The poster with a picture of Jerusalem was plagiarized by Palestinians for their political purposes in the 2000s .
Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)
- Retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1981
- Günter Eisenhut (Ed.): Franz Krausz. Pioneer of advertising graphics in Israel . Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum, February 24 to March 28, 2005. Graz; Vienna: Nausner and Nausner, 2005 ISBN 978-3-901402-44-9
- Franz Krausz. Flowers and shells of Israel . Jewish Cultural Center Graz, March 1 to March 28, 2005, Graz; Vienna: Nausner and Nausner, 2005
- The New Hebrews. 100 years of art in Israel . Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin, May 20 to September 5, 2005, p. 154
literature
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 186f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- A. Messner: Krausz, Franz . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 503 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Krausz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Franz Krausz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Franz Krausz , Plakate, at: The Palestine Poster Project Archives
- David B. Green: This Day in Jewish History 1905: The Man Who Would Design the 'Visit Palestine' Poster Is Born , in: Haaretz, May 13, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit the West Bank Tourism Poster - pictures , at FreakingNews
- ^ Franz Krausz (1905–1998) pioneer of advertising graphics in Israel , at Universalmuseum Joanneum , 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krausz, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraus, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli graphic and poster artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Polten |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1998 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |