Hellmut Eichrodt
Hellmut Eichrodt (born February 27, 1872 in Bruchsal , † July 31, 1943 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Eichrodt was the younger brother of Otto Eichrodt . He studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy from 1890 to 1903 and became a master student of Hans Thoma and Leopold von Kalckreuth . From 1897 to 1912 he worked for the magazine Jugend . He also worked for the Simplicissimus . In addition to commercial graphics, he mainly created murals in churches and other public buildings, including one in the mausoleum of the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II in Addis Ababa , several murals in the confirmation hall of the Christ Church in Karlsruhe , in the castle hotel and in the animal and city garden restaurant. The paintings on the Pforzheim district office tower (1901–1903) were also by Eichrodt.
The Karlsruhe Kunsthalle owns two portraits of women by Eichrodt's hand. Through his collaboration with the art print shop Künstlerbund Karlsruhe (KKK) he received numerous advertising contracts. He designed posters etc. for, among others, Messmer , the Ketterer brewery , the paint factory Kast & Ehinger , for the Badische Feuerversicherungsbank and for the North German Lloyd . For Dreser he created the collector's picture series The Frog King , The Soldier (1908) and The Seven Ravens (1909). He signed his collection pictures with "HE". In 1918 he illustrated an appeal by the provisional government of Baden to the soldiers of Baden.
literature
- Joseph August Beringer : Eichrodt, Hellmuth . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 412 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Eichrodt, Hellmuth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 331 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Karlsruhe (ed.): Street names in Karlsruhe (= Karlsruhe contributions. No. 7). Karlsruhe 1994, ISBN 3-7650-0407-3 ( karlsruhe.de ).
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz, Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer 2000, ISBN 3-496-01220-X , p. 91.
- ^ Appeal of the provisional people's government to the soldiers of Baden, November 16, 1918 (Freiburg State Archives, W 110/1 No. 108), illustration
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichrodt, Hellmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruchsal |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1943 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |