Gustav Petzold

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Gustav Petzold (also: Gustav Petzoldt ; born January 9, 1880 in Pilsen in Böhmen ; † after 1918) was a German graphic artist , draftsman and bookplate artist and illustrator .

life and work

One of Gustav Petzold's best-known works is his ex-libris, created in Dresden in 1902 for the writer Herman Anders Krüger .

With the artist's signatures Petzold and G. Petzoldt , Gustav Petzold was one of the visual artists of the magazine Jugend - Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben at the beginning of the 20th century . For the “youth”, Petzold, who is now counted among the magazine's “Illustrator / Caricaturist / Draftsman” group, created decorative strips and in particular floral Art Nouveau motifs at irregular intervals between 1904 and the end of 1918 .

Around 1906 Petzold worked in Düsseldorf . At a 1909 award ceremony at the Royal Academy in Dresden, where artists from German Bohemia were honored, Petzold received a certificate of honor, according to a report in the Prager Tagblatt, and was also presented with monetary prizes and foundations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Weisser : In the style of "youth" / The Munich illustrated weekly magazine for art and life and its influence on the style of the turn of the century (= Aesthetics of the everyday world , vol. 1), Frankfurt am Main: Fricke, 1979, ISBN 3881840257 , p. 211; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e website for the weekly "Jugend"
  3. ↑ a b Ex Libris: Book Art and Applied Graphics , Volume 12, p. 180; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Compare the information on the page jugend-wochenschrift.de
  5. ↑ n.v . : awarding of prizes at the Kgl. Academy in Dresden , in: Prager Tagblatt number 88 of March 29, 1909, p. 6; Digitized version of the Austrian National Library
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petzoldt, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator, as well as bookplate artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilsen , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH after 1918