Karl Alexander Wilke

Karl Alexander Wilke (born July 16, 1879 in Leipzig , † February 27, 1954 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian painter, illustrator and set designer.

biography

Wilke studied from 1898 to 1902 with Ludwig Nieper at the Art Academy in Leipzig , from 1902 to 1903 in Karlsruhe with E. Schruth and in 1902 again in Leipzig with Max Seliger . From November 1903 he worked in Vienna. From 1904 to 1907 he worked for the magazine Der Scherer - the first illustrated Tyrolean joke sheet for politics, art and life . From 1905 to 1918 he worked for the magazine Die Muskete . From 1913 to 1923 he worked at the Vienna Burgtheater as head of equipment. Among other things, he designed book covers and dust jackets , e.g. B. for the Wiener Literarisches Anstalt , the Leopold Stocker Verlag (from 1938), the Burgverlag, the Amalthea-Verlag, Konegen's children's books , Friedrich Wallisch's The Violence. A woman's fate from courtly times. (European publishing house, Vienna 1925), Robert Hohlbaum: The paradise and the snake . Staackmann, Leipzig 1928. From 1923 to 1938 he was active as an illustrator and artistic advisor at the Austrian Federal Publishing House. As a member of the NSDAP, Wilke was appointed provisional director of the Austrian Federal Publishing House three days after the annexation of Austria by the regional cultural director of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (Austria) , Hermann Stuppäck . The publisher was then renamed Österreichischer Landesverlag, formerly Österreichischer Bundesverlag , and the publishing program in the Börsenblatt for the German book trade was described as follows: “Landeskunde. Maps. World War I blackboards. Landscape. Folk and customs. History. Song. Art u. Ostmark poetry has been cultivated areas of the publishing house for many years. ”From 1908 to 1910 he was a member of the Hagenbund , and from 1941 of the Künstlerhaus Wien . He was close to Karl Hans Strobl .

Filmography

1921: Clothes make the man
1922: Meriota, the dancer

literature

Wilke, Karl Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 2 .
Wilke, Karl Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 136 .
Max Hayek: Karl Alexander Wilke. With twelve illustrations. In: Reclam's universe. 34, 1918, pp. 331-335.
Artist Lexicon: painters, graphic artists, draftsmen who are active in the field of advertising, book art, etc. (= Kaindl's Reklame-Bucherei. Volume 2). Kainde, Wie 1920, p. 165.
Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 4: S-Z. Self-published, Vienna 1974, p. 133.
Art in Austria, Austrian almanac and artist address book. Leoben 1934, p. 263.

Web links

Commons : Karl Alexander Wilke - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Karl Alexander Wilke in the catalog of the German National Library
Wilke, Karl Alexander German photo library

Individual evidence

↑ Vienna Literary Institute. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
^ Leopold Stocker Verlag. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
↑ Burgverlag. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
↑ Amalthea Publishing House. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
^ I. Development of the publishing book trade in Austria until 1918. In: Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938. Volume I. ( verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
^ European publisher. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
^ Hans Peter Fritz: Book city and book crisis. Diss. Vienna 1989, p. 20 ( wienbibliothek.at PDF).
↑ XII. Affiliated Austria. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume I. ( verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).
↑ Börsenblatt for the German book trade. No. 71/1938, p. 1691. Facsimile: Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1985, p. 359, cit. after: ibid p. 20 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Wilke, Karl Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian painter, illustrator and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1954
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Vienna Literary Institute. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[2] Leopold Stocker Verlag. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[3] Burgverlag. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[4] Amalthea Publishing House. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[5] I. Development of the publishing book trade in Austria until 1918. In: Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938. Volume I. ( verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[6] European publisher. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume II. ( Verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[7] Hans Peter Fritz: Book city and book crisis. Diss. Vienna 1989, p. 20 ( wienbibliothek.at PDF).

[8] XII. Affiliated Austria. In: Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938. Volume I. ( verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com ).

[9] Börsenblatt for the German book trade. No. 71/1938, p. 1691. Facsimile: Murray G. Hall: Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938. Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1985, p. 359, cit. after: ibid p. 20 f.