Mort artist
Mort Künstler (born August 28, 1931 in Brooklyn ) is an American illustrator who is best known for his detailed and historically accurate work on the American Civil War .
Artist studied art at Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. After graduating, he worked as a freelance artist in New York, where he received orders from book and magazine publishers. From 1953 he produced covers for several pulp magazines , illustrated magazines, paperbacks and adventure novels, some under the pseudonyms Martin or Emmet Kaye. He also designed the original cinema posters for The Poseidon's Hell Ride (1972), Stop the Death Ride of Subway 123 (1974) and the Charles Bronson film Nevada Pass (1974). The original motif, the burning zeppelin on the movie poster Die Hindenburg (1975) also comes from the artist.
His interest in the American Civil War was aroused in 1982 by an assignment from the CBS. He was supposed to create a poster for the civil war TV series The Blue and the Gray , in the implementation of which he put a lot of time to achieve a historically correct representation.
For Ronald F. Maxwell's films, Gettysburg and Gods and Generals , the artist published an accompanying illustrated book together with the American historians James M. McPherson and James I. Robertson Jr.
Artist's work is on permanent display at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, and the Confederation Museum in Richmond, among others.
Works
- Images of the Civil War: the Paintings of Mort Künstler (Text by James M. McPherson) (1992), ISBN 978-0-517-07356-8
- Gettysburg: The Paintings of Mort Künstler (Text by James M. McPherson) (1993), ISBN 1-878685-79-1
- Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray (1995), ISBN 978-1-55853-333-2
- Mort Künstler's Civil War - The North (1997) ISBN 1-55853-477-6
- Mort Künstler's Civil War - The South (1997) ISBN 1-55853-478-4
- Mort Artist's Old West. Cowboys (1998), ISBN 978-1-55853-588-6
- Mort Künstler's Old West Indians (1998), ISBN 978-1-55853-589-3
- Gods and Generals: the Paintings of Mort Künstler (text by Dr. James I. Robertson Jr.) (2002), ISBN 978-0-86713-084-3
- The Civil War Paintings of Mort Artist (2006), ISBN 978-1-58182-556-5
- For Us the Living: The Civil War in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts (2010), ISBN 978-1-4027-7034-0
Web links
Official website of Mort Künstler
Individual evidence
- ↑ Examples of Mort Künstler in the American Art Archives, accessed August 2, 2019
- ↑ Po-Man talks with artist Mort Künstler! , October 19, 2012
- ^ Mort Artist - The American Spirit; essay by Franklin Hill Perrell. In: www.tfaoi.com. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Artist, Mort |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |