Lothar Meggendorfer

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Lothar Meggendorfer around 1889
Kasperl
New Struwwelpeterbuch
Meggendorfer's humorous sheets (1890)

Lothar Meggendorfer (born November 6, 1847 in Munich , † July 7, 1925 in Munich) was a German artist, children's book author, painter, draftsman and illustrator.

Life

Meggendorfer was born as the son of the royal senior taxator Johann Nepomuk Meggendorfer and his second wife, Karoline von Safe. After attending Latin school, he began studying art at the Royal Academy in Munich in 1862 , and from 1866 he made his first contributions to the Fliegende Blätter and from 1868 to the Munich Bilderbogen . In 1889 the magazine Aus Lothar Meggendorfer's lustiger Bildermappe was published , which was continued from 1890 as humoristic monthly and from 1897 to 1925 as Meggendorfer-Blätter . In addition, around 150 books were produced, which were very successful in German-speaking countries and, for the most part, also in translations in England and America. Meggendorfer was friends with the Munich writer Julius Beck , who wrote the verses for several of his picture books, including New Struwwelpeter .

Meggendorfer owes its current popularity primarily to its game picture books - books with moving pictures that are regularly based on texts by Julius Beck . In 1878, published in 1879, the book Living Pictures was created as a Christmas present for his children. Another 28 picture books, four transformation books and eight folding picture books followed. With these books, different representations can be created by moving parts. Meggendorfer is often cited as the inventor of this type of book, but larger numbers of pop-up picture books have been known since the mid-19th century.

Meggendorfer's movable books are not only characterized by their illustration, but also by their sophisticated paper mechanics, which are impressive and could not be better even under modern production conditions and are therefore still considered a role model today. The so-called German era in the design of movable books is primarily associated with his name , for which the term pop-up's was formed in addition to the term movable books in the Anglo-Saxon countries . Many of today's creators of movable books - such as Robert Sabuda , Matthew Reinhart, Ron van der Meer, James Roger Diaz and David A. Carter - therefore see themselves in the tradition of Meggendorfer and have the techniques for designing movable books over the past three decades further developed. It has for this purpose the term "paper engineer" - paper engineer - formed.

The Movable Book Society in the USA regularly awards the Meggendorfer Prize as an award for particularly successful editions. Meggendorfer is particularly popular there, which is also reflected in the high prices for antiquarian editions of his books. In Germany, a number of his picture books appeared as new editions by Esslinger Verlag JF Schreiber .

Meggendorfer had been married to Elise (nee Roedel, 1851–1927) since June 23, 1873, with whom he had six children, Elsa, Adolf, Marie, Ilse, Elisabeth and Lothar.

Meggendorferstrasse is named after him in the Moosach district of Munich .

Works

Numerous illustrations from various works by Meggendorfer in Pictura Paedagogica Online .

literature

  • Georg Friedrich, Reinhilde von Katzenheim: Lothar Meggendorfer. Annotated catalog raisonné. Books and related printed matter, games, modeling sheets = Bibliography; Books and related printings, games, cut-out sheets . Edition Comboxx, Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2012, OCLC 819379777 .
  • Hildegard Krahé: Lothar Meggendorfer's play world . Hugendubel, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88034-201-6 .
  • Lothar Meggendorfer, Maurice Sendak, Jim Deesing: The genius of Lothar Meggendorfer. A movable toy book . Random House, New York 1985, OCLC 956285493 .
  • Bernd Günther, Lothar Meggendorfer: Lothar Meggendorfer's living picture books: December 11, 1980–28. February 1981. Exhibition of the Puppet Theater Museum in the Munich City Museum . Self-published, Munich 1981, OCLC 246778977 .
  • Helmut Herbst: The illustrations of the "Meggendorfer Blätter" . In: Upper Bavarian Archive . No. 106 , 1982, pp. 7-228 .
  • Ernst Lothar: Obituary for the death of Lothar Meggendorfer on 8 July 1925 . In: New Free Press . No. 120/7 . Vienna July 12, 1925.
  • Doris von Senger: Lothar Meggendorfer and the Meggendorfer sheets . Munich 1938 (dissertation).
  • Hans Ries:  Meggendorfer, Lothar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 611 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Lothar Meggendorfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lothar Meggendorfer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Meggendorfer, Lothar . In: Herrmann AL (August Ludwig) Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Berlin 1909, p. 906 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Meggendorfer, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, children's book author, painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1925
Place of death Munich