Fritz Schönpflug

Signatures from Fritz Schönpflug

Fritz Schönpflug (born June 15, 1873 in Vienna , † February 18, 1951 ibid) was an Austrian caricaturist , painter, graphic artist and postcard artist .

biography

Schönpflug's training was largely self-taught . He was co-founder and artistic director of the humorous weekly “ Die Muskete ” (1905–1941), but also worked for other magazines, such as the “Wiener fiegen Blätter”, the “Wiener Figaro”, the “Bomb” and the “Sketch” London. He was also an excellent horse draftsman. As a postcard artist he is known for his depictions of Viennese types and caricatures from life in the Austro-Hungarian army . He created around 1,000 templates for the Vienna postcard publisher Brothers Kohn Vienna (BKW) . Schönpflug also designed advertising posters, etc. a. Warning notices for passengers on Vienna's trams (1910) and cover drawings of brochures.

Schönpflug was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1906 to 1936 , and in 1949 he was awarded the title of Professor .

He is buried in an honorary grave at Baumgartner Friedhof (group E, no. 72).

Works

Book publications during his lifetime

• Mr. August Meier the high tourist and how he became one! Made with art and wit by Legwarth Franz and Schönpflug Fritz. Moritz Perles , Vienna undated (around 1900).
• People of war. Content: The hero mother. - The rough craft of war. - The general. - Council of war. - Soldiers. - The domerude field snake. - Hurray! The field surgeon. - To death! - happiness in peace. - The army show. - The warrior's end. CW Stern, Vienna 1903.
• The doctor. Vienna 1906.
• War in peace. 16 pictures from military life. Huber & Lahme, Vienna 1910.
• Max Schönowsky von Schönwies : Military boy games. KK Schulbücher-Verlag, Vienna 1910.
• Be careful! 244 military anecdotes and jokes. With original drawings by Fritz Schönpflug. Moritz Perles, Vienna 1910.
• Don't muck! 233 anecdotes from “Our Educators”. Edited by the humorous weekly “Die Muskete”. Publishing house Perles, Vienna 1910.
• Rudolf Jeremias Kreutz : From the world's monkey box and other things. Edited by the humorous weekly “Die Muskete”. Publishing house Perles, Vienna 1914.
• Hermann Wagner: Austrian small town types. Edited by the humorous weekly “Die Muskete”. Publishing house Perles, Vienna 1914.
• Ramaturi: the virtuous pig . With 15 pen drawings by Fritz Schönpflug and Karl Benedek. C. Barth, Vienna a. a. 1920.
• Alfred Deutsch-German (preface): The best animal stories. Volks-Zeitung publishing house, Vienna 1926.
• Gottfried Andreas (Ed.): Social guide for all situations. Verlag Andreas, Weidlingau-Vienna 1930.

Cover drawings for

• August Einspinner : On Dalmatian Forts. Verlag der kk Universitätsbuchhandlung Georg Szelinski, Vienna 1908.
• Leopold Tritsch: All sorts of things from Mr. Murks: humorous descriptions from business life. Huber & Lahme, Vienna 1909.
• Alfred Polgar , Egon Friedell : Soldiers' life in peace: a military piece that is censored and that every officer's daughter can lead her father into without hesitation. Vienna: Heller, 1910.
• Hermann Drawe: Among Vagabonds: Sketches from the criminal world. Published by Huber & Lahme Nachfg., Vienna 1910.
• Fritz Stüber-Gunther : You old Stefansturm ... cheerful u. more serious Viennese sketches. Mohr, Vienna 1913.

Posthumous book publications

• Hermann A. Funke: Horses with mosquitoes. Fun for riders and drivers. Illustrated by Fritz Schönpflug. Publisher Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1948.
• Peter Schönpflug (Ed.): Fritz Schönpflug. Vienna 1873–1951. A life dedicated to art and humor. Master in the representation of the types of the KuK army and old Vienna. H. Geyer, Vienna 1962.
• Minna Pixner (Ed.): Vienna in the past. With an introduction and explanations by Ulrich Ewald. Tusch, Vienna 1977.
• Minna Pixner (Ed.): Autumn maneuvers. With an introduction and explanations by Ulrich Ewald. Tusch, Vienna 1977.
• Minna Pixner (ed.): From society. With an introduction and explanations by Ulrich Ewald. Tusch, Vienna 1977.
• Minna Pixner (Ed.): Preussens Gloria. With an introduction and explanations by Ulrich Ewald. Tusch, Vienna 1977.

Remarks

1. ↑ Minna Pixner was the daughter of the postcard publisher Salomon Kohn. See their foreword to: From the postcard publisher Brothers Kohn. Viennese personalities around 1900. Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1994.

literature

• Schönpflug, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 233 .
• Schönpflug, Fritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 212 .
• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. (Volume 4. S-Z). Self-published, Vienna 1974, p. K 31.
• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. (Supplementary volume 2. L – Z). Self-published, Vienna 1979, p. K 105.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 133.

Web links

• Entry on Schönpflug, Fritz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• The caricaturist of the "kk army" died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 21, 1951, p. 6 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
• Fritz Schönpflug (Austrian, 1873–1951). artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Formery (compilation): Glossary for picture postcards and illustrated postcards ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB). S. 115. (Accessed July 30, 2012). 
2. ^ Marburger Zeitung . No. 135 , November 9, 1912, pp. 9 , urn : nbn: si: DOC-FVYZT2OA .