Heinrich Egersdörfer

Sailor and boy on the jib boom, mooring the sail

Heinrich Egersdörfer (* 1853 in Nuremberg , † April 29, 1915 in St. Pancras, London ) was a German painter, draftsman and illustrator, son of Georg Andreas Egersdörfer and Johanna geb. Kütt, brother of the painters Andreas Egersdörfer (1866–1946) and Konrad Egersdörfer (1868–1943), married to Mary Jane Creaney.

Egersdörfer was active in Germany, England, South Africa, Australia, again in South Africa and in England.

Heinrich Egersdörfer was trained as a lithographer and worked for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and then worked in England before emigrating to South Africa in 1879 .

In 1877 and 1883 he provided printing templates for the " Gazebo ".

In 1884 he founded the "South African Illustrated News" with his partners in Cape Town . The magazine was closed after a year. Egersdörfer went to Australia and worked there for ten years. Back in South Africa, he came to Kimberley , Witwatersrand and Rhodesia .

At first he devoted himself to painting animals. His work has appeared in "The Cape Argus", "The Owl" and other magazines.

During the Second Boer War (1899–1902) he created depictions of the events of the war, which later appeared in book form.

Between 1899 and 1901 he was the local correspondent for "The Graphic", and many of his illustrations appeared in this weekly until 1908.

In 1902 and 1903 he showed his works at the South African Society of Artists (SASA).

After the death of his wife Mary Jane Creaney in Cape Town in 1901 and his son Heinrich (1896–1910), he returned to London, where he died in 1915.

literature

• Eric Rosenthal: Heinrich Egersdörfer (Nasionale Boekhandel, Cape Town, 1960)
• Egersdörfer, Heinrich: The South African Review book of 50 famous cartoons: A unique souvenir of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1900 (Publisher: WA Richards 1900)

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