Karl Pommerhanz

Karl Pommerhanz (born June 6, 1857 in Röchlitz near Reichenberg , † probably around 1940 in Munich ) was an Austrian comic artist and author.

Pommerhanz studied in Prague . In the 1880s he went to Munich and in 1886 began drawing for the magazine Fliegende Blätter . From 1895 Pommerhanz worked for the Meggendorfer Blätter from Lothar Meggendorfer , a former colleague at the Fliegende Blätter . When the editor of the Chicago Tribune dared to experiment in 1906 to publish a Sunday supplement designed by German illustrators for the large proportion of the population of German origin, Pommerhanz was one of the illustrators commissioned alongside Lyonel Feininger and Meggendorfer. However, this experiment was discontinued after a few weeks. So Pommerhanz drew for the Meggendorfer Blätter until 1919 . He has also worked for the magazines Fips , Der gute Kamerad and Blaubandwoche . Pommerhanz 'trail is lost around 1930. His death date is believed to be around 1940. Munich is assumed to be the place of death.

Pommerhanz's specialty was the gagstrip consisting of four to eight pictures.

Works (selection)

• The "gentlemen" boys. Eßlingen / Munich 1902.
• O these boys! Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1920.
• Pommerhanz album. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1921.
• Rob and Bert. Text: Wilhelm Widmann. Leipzig graph. Works, Leipzig 1925.
• O this youth. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1925.
• Ruckel's adventure. A. Bergmann, Leipzig 1927.
• O these girls. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1929.
• Wild boys and girls. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1930.
• O these wicked ones. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1962.

literature

• Andreas C. Knigge : Comic lexicon . Ullstein Verlag , Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 360, 361 .
• Karl Pommerhanz . In: RRAAH! May 2001, p. 36/37 .

Web links

• Karl Pommerhanz at lambiek.net (English)
• Literature by and about Karl Pommerhanz in the catalog of the German National Library