Josef Benedikt Engl

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Joseph Benedikt Engl (born July 2, 1867 in Schallmoos near Salzburg , † August 25, 1907 in Munich ) was a German craftsman, caricaturist and illustrator .

Life

Joseph Benedikt Engl was the son of a locomotive stoker for the Royal Bavarian State Railways ; the mother came from the Austrian Innviertel . He was born near Salzburg in Austria , but spent his childhood and youth in Munich, where he lived all his life. After completing a two-year apprenticeship as a lithographer , he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich from 1885 and earned his living as a designer and manufacturer of travel souvenirs, draftsman of cityscapes and advertising, and in 1888 as an employee of popular joke papers such as the magazine Automobil- und Radfahrer - humor . In 1894 he delivered his first drawing for the famous magazine Fliegende Blätter published by the Munich publishing house Braun & Schneider . From 1896 he worked for the satirical paper Simplicissimus , founded by Albert Langen in the same year , with Thomas Theodor Heine from Leipzig , Ferdinand von Rezniček from Vienna , Rudolf Wilke from Braunschweig and - from 1906 - Olaf Gulbransson from Christiania (now Oslo ). Engl was thus the only "original Munich" among the regular draftsmen in Simplizissimus; From the first year until his early death he worked as a permanent employee of the illustrated weekly. He created countless caricatures and text illustrations and was, among other things, the creator of the logo of Kessler Sekt GmbH & Co. KG .

Around 1890 Engl married Margarete Fritzmann (1869–1917), who was two years younger than him. On August 6, 1893, son Josef was born in Munich, who made a name for himself as a pioneer of talkies. Severely handicapped by the consequences of an accident during his military service, Engl was released early. He died shortly afterwards, only 40 years old.

Works

  • “Winter's Farewell”; in: Die Gartenlaube , 1894

  • The center man

  • From the practice of a saint

  • Angled

  • Our enemies

  • A good thought

  • The secret dance floor

  • The country pharmacist

  • The Kessler piccolos

literature

  • Albert Langen (Ed.): Hundred drawings and jokes by JB Engl . Munich 1911 (new edition: Kaut-Bullinger & Co., Munich 1990).
  • Benno Hubensteiner: The draftsman Josef Benedikt Engl . Pflaum, Munich 1958.
  • Franz Freisleder: Watching your mouth and heart . Illustrations by JBEngl. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1976.
  • Engl, Josef Benedikt . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 88 .
  • Siegfried Weiß : Joseph Engl, Max Abitur 1912: physicist and sound film pioneer . In: Association of Friends of the Maximiliansgymnasium (ed.): Photo yearbook 2017. Report on the school year 2016/2017 . Pp. 63–69 (ill.).

Web links

Commons : Josef Benedikt Engl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gisela Vetter-Liebenow (ed.), Monika Herlt (red. Staff) et al. : The main draftsman of "Simplicissimus" . In this: Anniversary edition Simplizissimus , booklet to the exhibition Simplizissimus 1896–1944 from May 19 to July 28, 1996, Hanover: Wilhelm Busch Museum Hanover - German Museum for Caricature and Critical Graphics . 1996, p. 6 and others
  2. ^ Atelier: Theresienstraße 134
personal data
SURNAME Engl, Josef Benedikt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engl, JB; Engl, Josef B .; Engl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, caricaturist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Schallmoos
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1907
Place of death Munich