Hermann Wilke (painter)

Hermann Wilke (born February 13, 1876 in Braunschweig , † January 24, 1950 ibid) was a German political cartoonist , draftsman and graphic artist . He is the younger brother of the cartoonists Rudolf and Erich Wilke .

life and work

Hermann Wilke was one of six children of the carpenter Johannes Wilke and his wife from the village of Volzum , southeast of Braunschweig. He initially trained as a carpenter and studied mechanical engineering at the TH Braunschweig . During his studies in 1897 he became a member of the Braunschweiger fraternity Alemannia . After his studies he worked as an engineer, including three years at the Düsseldorf ironworks, from 1901 in England and from 1903 to 1905 in the USA .

As a painter and draftsman he was self-taught .

From 1919 until the magazine was discontinued at the end of 1920, Wilke worked for the satirical Braunschweiger Eulenspiegel . In the 1930s and 40s, Wilke mainly worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and magazines. Among other things, he was a permanent employee of the satirical magazine Ulk, which was published in Berlin, and between 1946 and 1949, he worked for the satirical magazine Frischer Wind, which was published in East Berlin . He also worked as an illustrator for numerous books.

literature

• Peter Lufft : Wilke, Rudolf. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 248 .
• Peter Lufft (ed.): The draftsman Rudolf Wilke. Leben und Werk , Braunschweig 1987 (exhibition catalog).
• Anette Boldt-Stülzebach: Wilke, Rudolf. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 657 .
• Justus Lange: The Wilkes - a modern family of artists from Braunschweig. Working reports from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig No. 73, Braunschweig 2008.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 725.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Spies : Rudolf Wilke (1873-1908). A draftsman of the Simplicissimus. Working reports from the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig No. 23, Braunschweig 1973, p. 5.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bernd A. Gülker: The distorted modernity: the caricature as popular art criticism in German satirical magazines. LIT Verlag, Münster 2001. ISBN 978-3825852245 , p. 280.
3. ^ Britta Berg: Newspapers and magazines from Braunschweig including Helmstedt (until 1810) and Wolfenbüttel (until 1918). In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke Publications from the city archive and the city library, Series A, Volume 40, The whole series Volume 93, Braunschweig 1995, ISBN 3-930459-08-6 , p. 114.