Jules Stauber

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Jules Jean-Pierre Stauber (born April 3, 1920 in Montreux - Clarens , † May 19, 2008 in Nuremberg ) was a German - Swiss cartoonist , illustrator and graphic artist .

Live and act

Jules Stauber's father was German, which is why Jules Stauber had both Swiss and German citizenship. His mother came from French-speaking Switzerland . After attending school in Lucerne, Jules Stauber completed an apprenticeship in arts and crafts and attended the arts and crafts school in 1937. When he got a job as a decorator at Karstadt in Berlin in 1939, the nineteen-year-old traveled to Berlin and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in September 1939 after the outbreak of war and assigned to a communications unit. He was used as a soldier in Russia and Italy. After his release from an American prisoner-of-war camp in northern France, Stauber worked in Nuremberg as a sign painter and decorator. At the same time he attended (together with Ruth Stahl and Oskar Koller ) the design class at the vocational school, which later became the Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences , design department. His talent for humorous drawings proved to be a special ability during this time.

Stauber worked as a freelance caricaturist and cartoonist for newspapers, magazines, weeklies and from 1951 as a book illustrator (first book: Eugen Kusch: “Auf gut Nürnbergisch”). In 1959 his first cartoons appeared in the Swiss satirical magazine “Nebelspalter” and in the Swiss weekly newspaper “Die Weltwoche”. From then on, his drawings appeared regularly in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Nürnberger Nachrichten, the Deutsche Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt, in Brigitte, in Vital, Ärztliche Praxis, Madame and Publik-Forum.

Jules Stauber was married to the painter and graphic artist Christa Kunze since 1955. The couple had two children.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1973 “The Swiss laugh about that”. Cover pictures, caricatures, cartoons from the “Nebelspalter”. Hanover, Wilhelm Busch Museum.
  • 1974 Participation in the traveling exhibition “100 Years of the Nebelspalter. Cover pictures, caricatures, cartoons ”.
  • 1974 "Cartoons, Graphic Design". Solo exhibition in Nuremberg in the Albrecht Dürer House.
  • 1976 Jules Stauber. Cartoons - Graphic Design. Osnabrück. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum (Akzisehaus) (It is probably a takeover of the exhibition in the Nuremberg Dürer House from 1974, which was also shown as a traveling exhibition in Würzburg, Regensburg and Bamberg.).
  • 2005 “Jules Stauber, Cartoons en wholesale & en détail”, solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Erlangen (catalog).
  • 2008 On the verge of comics - old boys & young boys. Erlangen Art Museum.

Publications (selection)

  • Life is beautiful closer to heaven. Joachim Wachtel comments on the drawings. Afterword by Eugen Skasa-Weiß. Feldafing 1962.
  • Mermaids love differently. Frankfurt am Main 1962, 12 sheets ( Die kleine Schmunzelbücher. Vol. 44).
  • Live and let live. Cartoons. Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-01225-0 .
  • Ernst Fabian. Sometimes there, sometimes there, sometimes there. New limericks. With drawings by Jules Stauber. Ebenhausen near Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7846-0104-9 .
  • Ernst Fabian. In existence, existence is so important. Mixed limericks. With drawings by Jules Stauber. Ebenhausen near Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7846-0113-8 .
  • The world is round. Cartoons. Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-01554-3 .
  • Cartoons. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-35632-2 .
  • St (r) icheleien by Jules Stauber. Introduced and accompanied by Josef Anselm Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden . Freiburg im Breisgau 1986, ISBN 3-451-20659-5 .
  • As a couple. Cartoons. Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11296-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stauber, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stauber, Jules Jean-Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss cartoonist, illustrator and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreux - Clarens
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2008
Place of death Nuremberg