Joseph Keppler
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (born February 1, 1838 in Vienna , † February 19, 1894 in New York ) was an Austrian cartoonist who worked in the United States .
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . After graduating, he delivered caricatures to the Viennese satirical magazine Kikeriki . He joined a theater troupe as a stage painter and later as a comedian and traveled with them in Tyrol and Italy . He also worked as a painting restorer. In 1864 he married the Viennese actress Minna Rubens.
His father, who had come to the United States in 1848, had established himself as the owner of a shop in a small town in northern Missouri . The young Keppler and his wife, hearing optimistic reports from America, decided to emigrate.
After a visit to his father, Keppler set out for St. Louis in 1867 and renewed his acting career. In 1869 he helped start the German-American weekly newspaper “ Die Vehme, illustrated weekly paper for jokes and seriousness ”, which appeared for a year. In March 1871 he published the weekly newspaper Puck , which appeared until August 1872.
After the death of his wife in 1870, Keppler married Pauline Pfau in 1871 and had three children: Udo, Irma and Olga. In the fall of 1872 he moved with his family to New York City and soon started working for Frank Leslie's publishing house. From 1874 he began contributing political cartoons to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper .
In September 1876, together with Frank Leslie's colleague Adolph Schwarzmann, he renewed “Puck” for the German-American audience in New York and introduced an English-language version the following year. In 1893, Keppler issued a "Puck" special issue on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago for six months . The next year he died in New York.
His son Udo Keppler (1872–1956) also became a caricaturist and editor of “Puck”. He changed his name to "Joseph Keppler Jr."
literature
- Richard Samuel West: Satire on Stone: the political cartoons of Joseph Keppler . University of Illinois Press, 1988. ISBN 0-252-01497-9 .
- Daniel Coit Gilman , Henry Thurston Peck , Frank Moore Colby (Eds.): Keppler, Joseph . In: New International Encyclopedia , 1st edition (1905). New York: Dodd, Mead (online) .
- George Edwin Rines (Ed.): Keppler, Joseph . In: Encyclopedia Americana , 1920 (online) .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keppler, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cartoonist, active in the United States |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1894 |
| Place of death | New York City |