Horst Haitzinger

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Horst Haitzinger (born June 19, 1939 in Eferding ) is an Austrian cartoonist . He has published over 16,000 caricatures so far and is one of the best-known political cartoonists in German-speaking countries. His drawings and oil paintings ( Fantastic Realism ) as well as his caricatures are shown at exhibitions at home and abroad.

education and profession

Haitzinger's artistic training began with a four-year study of commercial graphics at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Linz . This was followed by twelve semesters of painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Since graduating from the academy, Haitzinger has been working as a freelance cartoonist for many well-known daily newspapers and magazines .

Haitzinger counts Wilhelm Busch among his role models . For his caricatures he can fall back on a rich knowledge of literary and pictorial models.

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Cartoons

As a young student, Haitzinger published his first caricatures for the satirical magazine Simplicissimus in 1958, and from then on worked there as a permanent employee. He has been a freelance caricaturist since 1963 and works for the tabloid tz , Nürnberger Nachrichten , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , Rhein-Zeitung and other daily newspapers and magazines mainly in southern Germany. He also worked for the magazine Bunte for 27 years , and Der Spiegel selected his caricatures for the cover several times.

Haitzinger became known as the “master of the hearty line”, who knows how to caricature the political events of the Federal Republic of Germany accurately and with biting irony in an unmistakable style . At least one cartoon is created every day. So far, over 15,000 drawings have come from his pen.

In 1994 Haitzinger's draft poster for the European elections was rejected by some European parliamentarians because he campaigned for the election with a scantily clad Europe . He is aware that knowledge of mythology , to which the European figure metaphor belongs, is no longer a prerequisite for many readers today.

In December 2013, Haitzinger was voted one of the top 10 anti-Semitic, anti-Israel abuse of 2013 for a cartoon by the Simon Wiesenthal Center published in the Badische Zeitung . The Badische Zeitung rejected the allegation.

Oil paintings

The oil paintings occupy an important place in Horst Haitzinger's life work; The artist was already involved in oil painting at a young age. Even in his early works, the surrealist landscape was the predominant motif.

From 1968 he devoted himself exclusively to political caricature for around five decades. It was not until 2001 that he resumed his deep passion for oil painting. Since then several paintings have been created over many years. His representations from nature are largely based on experiences, impressions and ideas of his youth. They merge in the composition to a journey into a fantastic world.

The works are characterized by formal rigor combined with a rich wealth of details. Dense atmospheric moods are characteristic features of Haitzinger's fantasy world. The openness of meaning in the images and the viewer's freedom of interpretation are important concerns for the artist.

“My pictures are one hundred percent figurative. What people see on it, they can see and interpret as they want. That is in the imagination of every beholder, ”says Haitzinger. “It is my aim to make compositionally good pictures in which movement reacts to countermovement and the relationship between colors is right. The motifs play out in a recurring fairytale world, ”the artist explains his claim.

So far, several large-format oil paintings have been created, which are not for sale as originals and can be seen in exhibitions as loans. For Haitzinger friends and art collectors, six oil paintings were available as high-quality art prints with a certificate in a limited edition.

Private

Horst Haitzinger lives in Munich , is married and has two daughters. Nature conservation has long been a special concern of his . On November 30, 2019, Haitzinger said goodbye to everyday politics and retired. He now mainly devotes himself to painting.

Works

Since 1972, a compilation of the best political caricatures of the year has been published annually as an anthology by Bruckmann Verlag and nowadays by Stiebner Verlag. "As usual, national and global political events are presented in a funny, lively and sometimes snappy manner."

Various large-format, color-illustrated volumes have also been published.

  • Archetypes, 1979
  • Bonnoptikum, 1983
  • Bonnoptikum 2, 1985
  • Birthday bouquet: 70 caricatures for the seventieth by Franz Josef Strauss , 1985
  • BONNzen album, 1988
  • Globetrottel, 1989
  • Germany, Germany, 1990
  • Political cartoons, 1992
  • Weltsch (M) ore, 1992
  • N-EURO-sen, 1994
  • Kohldampf, 1997
  • Haitzinger Highlights, 1998
  • Berlinikum, 2000
  • Haitzinger caricatures and paintings, 2008
  • Unmistakably Haitzinger! Caricature and painting. Museum of Industrial Culture for the museums of the city of Nuremberg, 2015

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OÖN cartoonist Horst Haitzinger: Literally an old master , nachrichten.at , June 15, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Horst Haitzinger: "Satire mustn't do everything" , swp.de , December 31, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c Horst Haitzinger: "The Kauder was a torment" , nordbayern.de , August 28, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Election poster for the 1994 European elections ( memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), univie.ac.at , accessed on October 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Fig.3: Draft poster with caricature on the European myth , Demokratiezentrum.org , September 2009, accessed on October 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ Controversial caricature: Not every criticism is anti-Semitism ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), badische-zeitung.de , November 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ Hello, Horst Haitzinger: RZ cartoonist is retiring at the age of 80. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Haitzinger Karikaturen , stiebner.com, accessed on September 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ Year 1995 ( memento of February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), year 2007 ( memento of February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), year 2008 ( memento of February 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), year 2010 ( memento of 17 February 2015 in the Internet Archive ) February 2015 in the Internet Archive ), year 2014 ( Memento from October 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), mitspitzerfeder.de .
  10. ↑ "Messages have lost none of their topicality". Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Haitzinger, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION political cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Eferding