Georg Muhlberg

The seven Swabians. postcard

Georg Mühlberg (born February 5, 1863 in Nuremberg , † January 1, 1925 in Munich ) was a German painter , draftsman and illustrator .

Mühlberg was the son of a Nuremberg shoemaker, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he enrolled in the natural class on October 21, 1882. illustrated mainly children's and youth literature , including fables ( Paul Hey , 100 Fabels for Children, 1903 and others, color pictures), fairy tales and magazines. Several picture cycles deal with student life in striking connections ( couleur pictures ). Mühlberg produced popular postcard series on fairy tales ( Tischlein deck dich , Die Sieben Schwaben ) and sagas ( Tristan saga) as well as on the historical novel Lichtenstein by Wilhelm Hauff ( Der Pfeifer von Hardt ) and novels by Eugenie Marlitt ( The Owl House , The Secret of the Old Mamsell , Goldelse , Countess Gisela ), color postcards and drawings in the magazines Die Gartenlaube and Fliegende Blätter .

literature

• Mühlberg, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 213 .
• Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Mühlberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Georg Mühlberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• The seven Swabians , postcard series by Georg Mühlberg
• Couleur pictures by Georg Mühlberg ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Georg Mühlberg in HeidICON illustrations of the flying leaves

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 04199 Georg Mühlberg. In: Matriculation Book 2: 1841-1884. Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on December 19, 2019 .