Heiri Strub

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Heinrich "Heiri" Strub (born August 17, 1916 in Riehen ; † April 22, 2014 in Basel ) was a Swiss graphic artist , illustrator and communist activist.

Life

Heinrich Strub was the son of the meteorologist and Grand Councilor Walter Strub (1882–1938) and his wife Margrit, nee. Saxer (1886-1970). He grew up in the communist family home in Riehen. From 1934 to 1938 he completed an apprenticeship as typesetter at the Stobel book printer in Basel. In addition, he designed sets such as for the "headlights", a Basel agitpro group founded in 1935 . From 1939 to 1942, interrupted by active service , he attended the arts and crafts school in Basel and received lessons from Alfred Soder , Theo Ballmer , Georg Schmidt and Arnold Fiechter . In 1943 he married Liselotte ("Lotti") Arnold (1919–2013), daughter Olga was born in 1950.

During these years he found work at the National-Zeitung as a typesetter and at the “Basler Druck und Verlag AG” as a poster designer . In October 1944 Strub was one of the founding members of the “ Labor Party ” (PdA) in Basel. As a Communist partisan, Strub was unable to earn the necessary livelihoods for himself and his family in Switzerland, which prompted him and his family to emigrate to the GDR in 1957 . In 1971 they returned to Basel. For the weekly party organ Vorwärts Strub worked as a local editor for Basel and the region until 1981 , and from 1972 he sat for the PdA in the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt. On April 22, 2014, he died at the age of 97 in Basel, where he lived.

Illustrated works (selection)

  • Peter Meinhardt: The smugglers from Plivio. Basel 1938.
  • Gabriel de Guilleragues / Walter Widmer (transl.): The five love letters from the Portuguese nun. Basel 1945.
  • Alain-Fournier / Walter Widmer (translator): Meaulnes. The great friend. Basel 1945.
  • Walter Widmer : Sumse buzz. Bern 1946.
  • Jules Renard : Red Fox. Zurich 1946.
  • André Maurois / Walter Widmer, Walter ( transl .): Patapuffer and Filiferen. Bern 1946.
  • Mark Twain : A Yankee at King Arthur's court. Stuttgart u. a. 1948.
  • Walter Widmer: A clock, a portrait and a cheese round and fat. Zurich 1948.
  • Walter Widmer ( transl. ): A French hexameron. Sixty old French short stories and pranks. Stuttgart u. a. 1948.
  • Jeremias Gotthelf : Complete edition in twenty volumes. Basel 1948–1952.
  • Walter Widmer: Ten little negroes. Zurich 1950.
  • Kurt Held : Matthias and his friends. Aarau 1951.
  • Heiri Strub: The walrus and the violets. Aarau 1951.
  • Heini Hediger , Heiri Strub: Animals in the zoological garden. Basel 1952.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm : The brave little tailor . Zurich 1955.
  • Hans Christian Andersen : The lighter. Zurich 1956.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: The forest house. Berlin 1957.
  • Friedrich Wolf : Fables. Berlin 1957.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: The hare and the hedgehog . Berlin 1958.
  • Herbert Jobst : The foundling . Berlin 1958.
  • Herbert Jobst: The pupil . Berlin 1958.
  • Mira Lobe : The other one. Berlin 1958.
  • Heiri Strub: The five funny fellows. Berlin 1959.
  • Herbert Jobst: The vagabond. Berlin 1963.
  • Adelheid Gessner, Dieter Lohmann: Eat well, but with brains. Berlin 1964.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: The Bremen Town Musicians . Berlin 1965.
  • Friedrich Wolf: The Christmas goose Auguste. Berlin 1965.
  • Walter Kaufmann : Stefan. Berlin 1966.
  • Friedrich Wolf: The lieutenant given away. Berlin 1967.
  • Auguste Lazar: Columbine and the root male. Berlin 1968.
  • Bertolt Brecht , Bertolt / Strub, Heiri: The wounded Socrates. In: Pieces for the puppet theater 1900–1945. Berlin 1974.
  • Jörg Weibel: Elbow room. Patriotic poems. Basel 1978.

Exhibitions

  • since 1933: regular participation in the art credit Basel-Stadt
  • 1940: Christmas exhibition of Basel artists, Basel
  • 1970: Kulturbund, Berlin
  • 1972: Galerie Katakombe, Basel
  • 1983: Producer Gallery, Zurich
  • 1984: Zum Wildenstein, Basel; Tourist Vulpera (GR)
  • 1985: Municipal administration, Birsfelden
  • 1987: Kreuz Nidau, Nidau ; Pratteln Castle
  • 1988: Galerie Münsterberg, Basel
  • 1990: Badische Landesbibliothek , Karlsruhe; Münsterberg Gallery, Basel
  • 1992: Galerie Münsterberg, Basel
  • 1994; 1996: Hilt Gallery, Basel
  • 1997: Riehen municipality
  • 1999; 2002; 2006: Hilt Gallery, Basel

items

  • Considerations when recasting an old fairy tale. In: Young Art. Organ of the Central Council of Free German Youth. (3/1959), pp. 78-80.
  • Courting couples . In: Vorwärts , August 15, 1974, Basel 1974.
  • John Heartfield . Revolutionary - peace fighter - satirist - modern classic. In: Vorwärts , January 15, 1978. Basel 1978.
  • From the long struggle against atomization. In: Vorwärts , October 8, 1987. Basel 1987, p. 6ff.
  • The story of the story of the walrus and the violet. In: Baselbieter Heimatblätter. Organ of the Society for Regional Cultural History Baselland and the Society of Raurachischer Geschichtsfreunde. Basel 2004, issue 2, pp. 41–68.

literature

  • Corina Lanfranchi: Undeterred. Heiri Strub - a life between art and politics. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2008.
  • New PdA Basel: Heiri Strub for the 95th In: Forward. The socialist newspaper , August 26, 2011.
  • Hildegard Gantner-Schlee: Heiri Strub - graphic artist and painter. In: Jürg Tauber (Ed.): «No copy to anyone» . Liestal 1997, p. 107 ff.
  • Annemarie Monteil : Heiri Strub: 80 years of intensity. In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche 1995 ( online ).
  • Erika Neumann: Heinrich Strub. In: Young Art. Organ of the Central Council of Free German Youth (3/1959), pp. 49–61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist and communist: Heiri Strub died at the age of 97. In: OnlineReports , April 25, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014.