Julius Ussy Engelhard

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Julius Ussy Engelhard (born July 18, 1883 in Bindjoy on Sumatra , Dutch East Indies ; died December 13, 1964 in Munich ) was a German painter, commercial artist and illustrator .

Life

He completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich a . a. with Franz von Stuck . He was a member of the New Association of Munich Poster Artists and worked for Simplicissimus , Die Jugend and numerous other magazines. He was the in-house graphic designer for the fashion magazine Elegante Welt , for which he drew sophisticated covers in Art Deco style in the 1920s . Engelhard also draws cover pages for Echo Continental magazine . He draws advertising posters for the Munich fashion house Isidor Bach , for Breitner Hüte, for the Seerestaurant Starnberg, the Odeon Casino Munich and for Rau-Thallmaier Munich. In 1922 he published six designs for the Manoli Privat cigarette brand for the Manoli cigarette factory in Berlin. In the years that followed, other designs for Manoli were added.

His political posters, which were produced in the Munich Soviet Republic , such as “You too should join the Reichswehr” from 1919 and “Misery and doom follow anarchy” from 1918, which later became “Bolshevism brings unemployment and work hardship” , also had a societal impact “Was changed.

During the National Socialist era, Engelhard adapted to the nationalist style of painting.

Pictures (selection)

  • Bad im Bergsee , with: Berthold Hinz : The painting of German fascism: Art and counterrevolution . Frankfurt a. M.: Gutenberg Book Guild , 1976 ISBN 3763219560 , p. 198 (Location (1974): Oberfinanzdirektion München)

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SURNAME Engelhard, Julius Ussy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, commercial artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bindjoy in Sumatra Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1964
Place of death Munich