Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger

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Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger (born June 11, 1881 in Mödling - Hinterbrühl , † January 1, 1968 in Graz ) was an Austrian writer and illustrator . Her works have also appeared under the names Käthe Schönberger , Katharina von Dombrowski , Käthe von Dombrowski , Baroness von Dombrowski and the abbreviation KOS

Life

Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger was born on June 11, 1881 in Mödling as Katharina Ludovika Schönberger. She grew up in Abbazia and came to Berlin at the age of 14 . Without having attended appropriate training, she was at the age of 20 years a well-known illustrator and illustrator of already bookplate and animal cartoons. Numerous drawings by the artist were first published in the Fliegende Blätter and later in book form. In 1914 she received the silver medal of the Bugra in Leipzig .

She adopted the double name after her marriage to the German diplomat Franz Olshausen . This relationship comes from the descendant of the biochemist Joern Olshausen (1903–1988). When she was married to Olshausen, she lived in Berlin, Munich, Königstein im Taunus, and at times in New York, South America and probably also in Africa.

In her second marriage she was married to the painter Carl Ritter von Dombrowski zu Papros and Kruswic. After that she also used the name Katharina von Dombrowski for her works. From 1930 she published numerous novels, short stories and essays. She also worked for film and radio drama and as a translator from English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Works

Particularly noteworthy in her work is her participation in Fridtjof Nansen's appeal for donations for Russia and her anti-militarist novel Land der Frauen .

At the German National Library it is managed by Katharina von Dombrowski .

Around 1900 she worked for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck with designs for Stollwerck collector's pictures and designed a. a. "The storks" and "From a bird's eye view" for Stollwerck. She created the “Reineke Fuchs” series for Palmin . She used to sign her collective pictures with KOS.

Books

  • From animal and human life, 25 pen sketches to the amusement of Jung a. Old . Vienna and Leipzig: Verlag von Ludwig Schönberger, approx. 1896.
  • Female riders and cyclists . Berlin: Harmonie Publishing Society for Literature and Art, ca.1899
  • In the mirror of the animal world. Four volumes . Munich: Braun & Schneider, ca.1901, 1909, 1914, 1919.
  • Contributions to women's horsemanship: in our experience . Leipzig: Engelmann, 1909
  • Noah's political ark . Munich: Braun & Schneider, ca.1916
  • Between Cancer and Capricorn, tropical animal stories in words and pictures . Leipzig: Ernst Keil's successor (August Scherl), 1922.
  • Abdallah and the Donkey , New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928
    • Abdalla and his donkey. A story for children aged eight to eighty , Frankfurt am Main : Verlag Heinrich Scheffler, first edition April 1950, second edition April 1955
    • Radio play, Audiothek GmbH, 2004, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1953
    • Radio play, Igel-Records, February 2003 (with Axel von Ambesser, Bum Krüger, Heinz Rühmann and others)
    • Augsburger Puppenkiste, SAD Home Entertainment DVD 2009, Hessische Rundfunk 1984
  • Boga the Elephant . New York: The MacMillan Company, 1928.
    • Boga, the Cameroonian elephant child. An animal book for children aged 8 to 80 . Vienna, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk 1936, Vienna: Verlag für Jugend und Volk 1941, 3rd edition 1947
  • The Fat Camel of Baghdad . New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929
  • Just horses . New York: The MacMillan Company, 1930
  • Land of Women, Tale of a Lost Nation . London: Putnam, and Boston: Little Brown, 1935.
    • Naisten Maa, Kertomus tuhoutuneesta kansasta . Helsinki, KJ Gummerus, 1937.
    • Land of women, novel of a lost people . Frankfurt am Main: Gutenburg 1933 / Frankfurt am Main: Scheffler 1950.
    • Terre des Femmes, roman d'un peuple disparu . Paris, Editions Albin Michel, 1952

Illustrations and caricatures

Käthe Olshausen has contributed all or part of the illustrations for the following works.

  • We . By Friedrich Werner van Oesteren, drawings by Käthe Schönberger. Dresden: Verlag von Carl Reissner, ca.1901.
  • Fables . Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). With illustrations based on original hand drawings by Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger. People's Association of Book Friends. Berlin: Wegweiser-Verlag 1927.
  • How do we impress most in the world? Negotiation report from the large international dog gathering. A society satire by Hertha von Knobloch, with 10 pictures by Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger. Wolfenbüttel: Julius Zwißlers Verlag, 1915.
  • Pour nos petits freres russian! Appeal for donations with color print by Käthe Schönberger. Geneve: Haut Commisiariat du Professeur Dr. Fridtjof Nansen , 1922.
    • For our little Russian brothers! Gifts from Western European writers and artists for the needy children in the famine districts of Russia . Geneva: High Commissioner Professor Dr. Fridtjof Nansen , 1922.
  • The funny hair dryer book: A picture book f. young and old / with contributions from first artists such as G. Mühlen-Schulte; Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger; W. Haymann… including Berlin: Electricity company "Sanitas", 2nd edition 1925
  • A jackal in Persia . By Major CF MacKenzie, illustrated by KOS (Baroness Dombrowski). Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Comonay, Inc., 1928.
  • Jungle Gods . By Carl von Hoffman, illustrated by Baroness Katharina Dombrowski (KOS). New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929.
  • Little Jungle Village . By Jo Besse McElveen Waldeck, illustrated by Katharina von Dombrowski. New York: The Viking Press, Fifth Edition 1940.
  • Brehm's most beautiful animal stories . Edited by Theodor Etzel, pen drawings by Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lesering, 1960.
  • Berlin - A City of Animal Lovers, A Special Edition for the Friends of the House of Ullstein . Berlin: Ullstein GmbH, 1963.
    • Berlin, in love with animals. Special print for the Friends of the House , Berlin: Ullstein 1963. (Unconfirmed)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ But the year 1967 is also mentioned.
  2. ↑ Detlef Lorenz, Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures , Reimer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3496012207 , p. 147

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personal data
SURNAME Olshausen-Schönberger, Käthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohlshausen, Käthe; Dombrowski, Katharina von; Dombrowski, Käthe von; Baroness von Dombrowski; KOS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1968
Place of death Graz