Oto Reisinger

Oton Antun Reisinger , also Otto Reisinger and Oto Rajzinger (born October 4, 1927 in Murska Sobota , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † April 6, 2016 in Zagreb , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist .

Life

Reisinger began to draw during the Second World War , his first published caricatures appeared in the Studentski list (student newspaper) in 1945 and in the humor newspaper Kerempuh from 1946 to 1950 . He studied architecture in Zagreb and worked in the editorial department of the newspaper Vjesnik , where he drew the cartoon series Pero , among other things . His drawings have also been printed in magazines in German-speaking countries, including Quick , pardon and Nebelspalter . The British satirical magazine Punch also published drawings by Reisinger.

Many of Reisinger's caricatures are rich in detail and colored. He also created the comic Štefekove pustolovine (1964-1966) as well as calendars, posters, advertisements and cartoons and worked as a book illustrator. There have been exhibitions of his works in Zagreb (1975) and Dortmund (1978), among others.

Reisinger's early caricatures often had a political content, but since the 1960s they have portrayed everyday situations in a humorous way. In the 1990s, with his caricatures he took sides with the attitude of the Croatian government in the Yugoslav wars .

Works

Oto Reisinger published several books with collected caricatures

German speaking

Fine People , 1977 ( ISBN 3-85819-008-X )
Beautiful Society , 1984 ( ISBN 3-85819-066-7 )
Oto Reisinger wishes you a good trip! , 1985 ( ISBN 3-85819-071-3 )

Serbo-Croatian / Croatian

Visoko društvo (Higher Society), 1974
I advise me. Caricatures (War and Peace. Caricatures), 1995

literature

Likovni Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , Volume 2, 1987 ( ISBN 86-7053-001-5 )
Kurt Flemig , Caricaturist Lexicon , 1993 ( ISBN 3-598-10932-6 )

Web links

Short biography on cartoonweb.com (English, with picture)
Text on Reisinger retrospective and interview (Croatian with picture and caricatures; PDF; 5.8 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ His strength became particularly evident during the Patriotic War , in which he participated in a special way with his pen. With his caricatures and just one or two sentences of text, he showed the world, which often did not understand who was the aggressor and who the victim here in Croatia, and told them what really happened in our fatherland. (Mladen Perković, Proslov / Prologue , in: O. Reisinger, Rat i mir. Karikature , p. 6f (Croatian), 8f (English); see also the short biography ibid. P. 4)

personal data
SURNAME	Reisinger, Oto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reisinger, Oton Antun (full name); Reisinger, Otto; Rajzinger, Oto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Murska Sobota , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 2016
Place of death	Zagreb , Croatia

[1] His strength became particularly evident during the Patriotic War , in which he participated in a special way with his pen. With his caricatures and just one or two sentences of text, he showed the world, which often did not understand who was the aggressor and who the victim here in Croatia, and told them what really happened in our fatherland. (Mladen Perković, Proslov / Prologue , in: O. Reisinger, Rat i mir. Karikature , p. 6f (Croatian), 8f (English); see also the short biography ibid. P. 4)