Martin Lamm

Martin Fredrik Lamm (born August 10, 1929 in Ludvika , † December 5, 1983 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish artist and illustrator and one of Sweden's most famous political cartoonists .

Life

Martin Lamm was the son of the electrical engineer Uno Lamm . He was trained at Anders Beckman's private art school in Stockholm, after which he studied lithography and etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London . In 1959 he came to the national Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter , where he stayed until his early death in 1983. Lamm published his first album with caricatures as early as 1963 and here is his well-known illustration of Charles de Gaulle , who answers the phone the words: "Europe ... Yes, that's me!" For this drawing, Lamm won first prize at the 1964 Montreal Drawing Festival .

A well-known cartoon from 1976 shows Astrid Lindgren , who appears to be impaling the then Social Democratic Finance Minister Gunnar Sträng with her umbrella . Lindgren criticized Sträng with a polemical fairy tale in the Expressen newspaper when she discovered that it had a marginal tax rate of 102%. The arrogant Strand dismissed her and said she shouldn't interfere in his tax policy and still rather tell fairy tales. The Social Democrats lost the election and the marginal tax rate was lowered to a good 80%.

In addition to caricatures, Martin Lamm also drew the current Sunday portrait and travel reports in Dagens Nyheter. He also made a name for himself as a children's book illustrator. His drawing style was the fast pen and brush, always well worked out, incredibly accurate and witty and at the same time of ironic thoughtfulness.

His works include a. represented in the National Museum in Stockholm. In 1959 he received the Elsa Beskow badge for his illustrations in the children's book All världens vackra sagor .

literature

• Martin Lamm, Tecknare i Dagens Nyheter , Dagens Nyheters förlag 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Lamm . Swedish National Encyclopedia website . Retrieved January 18, 2011.