Hans Kossatz

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Hans Ewald Kossatz (born February 7, 1901 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † March 27, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German caricaturist, comic artist and illustrator.

Election campaign poster for the CDU from 1953 with drawings by Kossatz

Life

After the First World War , Kossatz first worked in an aircraft factory and then in a shipyard . In 1921 he moved to Berlin and found a job at Siemens , where he made drawings for the company newspaper in addition to his technical work. His first drawings were published by Lustige Blätter , which bought eleven of his submitted drawings. The publication of further drawings in other newspapers followed, so that Kossatz gave up his original profession. At the beginning of the 1930s he drew a series for the youth mail , the youth supplement of the Berliner Morgenpost . During this time Kossatz published drawings both in Der Wahre Jacob and in the National Socialist Brennessel . A sawfish he drew , which alongside the strip Lilo, the pretty bride regularly appeared in the magazine Erika - Die frohe Zeitung for front and home , became the mascot of the submarine U 96 . After the Second World War , Kossatz worked, among other things, for the youth magazine Ins neue Leben . Kossatz's most popular figure was Dachshund Willi , who from November 1953 got its own strip in Deutsche Illustrierte and, after merging with Bunten Illustrierte in 1958, was continued in the previous versions of Bunte from 1962 to 1966. In 1976 he published the book Heimweh-Blues with Hildegard Knef . His cartoons appeared in the Tagesspiegel for twenty years . He painted some of his oil paintings on the walls of his studio, which was located in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

Works

  • There you are! Ripped off . Blanvalet, Berlin 1955
  • Willi and the Kaiser family - 50 picture stories . Illustrierte Presse publishing house, Stuttgart 1957
  • Laugh with Willi - The experiences of a dachshund . Tomus Verlag, Munich 1962
  • I'm weird in there . Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1967
  • Frankly, that's how it was with me - The illustrated confession . Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1969

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 64.
  2. ↑ 60 years of Bunte ( memento of December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 11, 2009
  3. ↑ NN: wall-colored . In: Eulenspiegel. Weekly magazine for satire and humor . Volume 38, No. 24/91, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Kossatz, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kossatz, Hans Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German caricaturist, comic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1985
Place of death Berlin