Karl Holtz

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Karl Holtz (born January 14, 1899 in Berlin , † April 18, 1978 in Rehbrücke ) was a German graphic artist , draftsman and caricaturist .

Life

Karl Holtz attended a grammar school in Gdansk from 1909 to 1913 and the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin from 1914 to 1919 , where he received his artistic training from the painter Emil Orlik and the graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin . His first works appeared as early as 1916: a caricature in Ulk and drawings in Wieland and in Funny Leaves . During the First World War he did his military service in Zabern and Strasbourg in 1918 .

During the November Revolution, his cartoons appeared in the newspaper Die Rote Fahne , and Holtz took part in the fighting in Berlin in 1919. From 1920 to 1923 he was traveling through Germany, Italy , France and Tunisia . After his return in 1924 he became a draftsman for the social democratic papers Der Wahre Jacob and Lachen Links , where Friedrich Wendel also worked as an editor. In 1928 he started working for Eulenspiegel and in 1931 for Die Ente . During this time, Karl Holtz also worked for the book club Der Bücherkreis .

In 1932 he moved to Rehbrücke near Potsdam and moved into his own house there in 1936. As a result of the takeover of power in 1933, he was banned from working as a press illustrator and he took on activities as a draftsman and commercial artist. After serving as a soldier from 1939 to 1945, Karl Holtz returned to Rehbrücke near Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone and worked for Ulenspiegel , Neue Berliner Illustrierte , Freie Welt , Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkszeitung , Leipziger Zeitung , Observer and Nebelspalter .

Karl Holtz was arrested because the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelspalter had published a Stalin cartoon in its number 21/1949 . A Soviet military tribunal sentenced Holtz 1949 to a prison term of 25 years, in prison Bautzen enforced was. On July 25, 1956, he was released early on a pardon , but without rehabilitation . After his dismissal, Karl Holtz was able to work again for previous clients in Rehbrücke.

Publications

  • The Noske system . A political and satyrical reckoning . Together with Felix Stössinger . Freedom, Berlin 1920.
  • The upside-down world depicted in Knüttelversen by Kaspar Hauser. Together with Jörg Mager or Kurt Tucholsky . Freedom, Berlin 1922.
  • The Castle of Truth - A book of fairy tales . Together with Hermynia zur Mühlen . Verlag der Jugendinternationale, Berlin 1924. (Facsimile edition: Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1983. Afterword by Horst Kunze .)
  • New Saxon miniatures . Together with Hans Reimann . Reissner, Dresden 1928.
  • Illustrations for Rudolf Arnheim : Voice from the gallery. 25 small essays on the culture of time . Dr. Wilhelm Benary, Berlin-Schlachtensee 1928.
  • Good Holtz! Compiled by Karlheinz Dieter. Tascheneulenspiegel No. 33. Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1962.
  • Wood auction. Compiled by Sonja Lufer. Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1964.
  • From the wooden box. Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1971.
  • Karl Holtz. Edited by Wolfgang U. Schütte (= classic caricature; 21), Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1983.

Exhibitions

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edmund Schulz: Kaspar Hauser - 17/2010 - Ossietzky - two-week publication for politics / culture / economy. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Holtz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, draftsman and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1978
Place of death Deer Bridge