Hans Füsser

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Hans Füsser (born August 19, 1898 in Düsseldorf ; † January 30, 1959 there ) was a German illustrator , caricaturist and comic artist .

Live and act

After the First World War , Füsser studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and joined the Young Rhineland artists' association. From the 1920s to the 1940s he produced illustrations and (also political) caricatures for the newsreel published by Girardet ; During this time he also developed a short-lived cartoon character named Pröppken Schick . Around 1935 Füsser illustrated Theo Rausch's The Three Merry Journeyman with the magic lantern ; according to Andreas C. Knigge, one of the few examples of books "that are not saturated with National Socialist ideology". At the end of the 1930s, he and his wife Lilo, who was also an artist, moved to Hinsbeck- Hombergen to an artists' colony to which Jupp Rübsam belonged.

Between 1946 and 1950 Füsser drew numerous employment, fairy tale and picture books , of which Heinz and Inge. A picture book of life in the country appeared in several editions. In 1948, the picture book publisher Hartmann & Co. published under the title Jackel and craft two of Füsser subscribed and lyrics written comic . In 1951 he took over a comic strip in Canterbumm magazine , which was developed by Emmerich Huber before the war .

Other works by Füsser include wall paintings and glass windows as well as commercial graphics for the Rokal company .

Füsser died of a fall in January 1959 after falling from a ladder while decorating a car for the Düsseldorf Carnival .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued - Comic culture in Germany. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 43.
  2. ↑ Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff: Comics . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 1990, ISBN 3-407-56521-6 , pp. 26-27.
personal data
SURNAME Füsser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator, caricaturist and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1959
Place of death Dusseldorf