Kurt Heiligenstaedt

Kurt Heiligenstaedt (born August 13, 1890 in Roßleben ; † May 5, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German artist, poster designer, commercial artist, caricaturist.

Live and act

After working in the publishing book trade from 1907 to 1910, he studied at the private, Jewish school of arts and crafts Reimann in Berlin with Professor Karl Klimsch . Heiligenstaedt then worked as a commercial artist, poster artist and caricaturist. His works were published in Funny Leaves , Meggendorfer Blätter, Die Woche, Sport im Bild, Ulk, Fliegende Blätter and simplicissimus .

Characteristic for him are humorous drawings with an elegant touch. He designed numerous advertising and film posters. His best-known work is the 1922 poster Persil remains Persil with the famous white Persil lady, for which Elly Heuss-Knapp wrote the advertising text. This poster was used only slightly modified over the decades.

In 1923/1924 and from 1935 onwards, Simplicissimus regularly printed 428 of his drawings. From 1935 on, Heiligenstaedt specialized in naturalistic and elegantly drawn, erotic scenes in contemporary costume, which were among the first pin-up pictures in Germany. In the successor magazine of the Simplicissimus in 1959, with the nipples indicated on the cover picture, he caused one of the rather rare seizures of the time.

Kurt Heiligenstaedt died in Berlin in 1964 at the age of 73 and was buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf . The grave has not been preserved.

Memberships

Member of the Association of Visual Artists

Web links

Simplicissimus
Works by Kurt Heiligenstaedt in The Flying Leaves
Works by Kurt Heiligenstaedt in the Simpl

Individual evidence

↑ Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser: The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design training up to its destruction by the Hitler regime. Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 534
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 633.

personal data
SURNAME	Heiligenstaedt, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist, poster designer, commercial artist, caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rossleben
DATE OF DEATH	5th May 1964
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser: The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design training up to its destruction by the Hitler regime. Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 534

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 633.