Ottomar Anton
Ottomar Carl Joseph Anton (born December 15, 1895 in Hamburg ; † November 7, 1976 in Hamburg) was a German painter, graphic artist and university professor. He designed high-circulation posters for several shipping companies, but also for the Waffen SS .
Life
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The son of a businessman attended secondary school as well as the State School of Applied Arts, today's Hamburg University of Fine Arts . He later completed his training by working at the Arno Kypke poster printing company in Hamburg, where he became studio manager after the First World War. In 1921 he started his own business as a graphic artist. He went on study trips to Scandinavia, Southern Europe and North Africa. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and shortly afterwards was appointed professor at the Nordic Art Academy in Bremen, where he taught until the end of the war. In 1936 he became a member of the SS and from then on designed numerous propaganda posters for the SS and the Waffen SS . He took on further state contracts from the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as well as from the Reichspost, which gave him the last stamp series for “ Heroes' Memorial Day ” in 1944. Anton received several awards for his work during the Nazi era .
After the war ended, Anton was interned until March 1946. He then worked again successfully as a commercial artist for numerous companies.
His grave is on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square L 5 (opposite the cemetery museum ).
Works
Anton also illustrated children's books, such as B. Whimsical fairy tales by Egon Hillgenberg in 1920.
But his advertising graphics, which he created from the mid-1920s, are best known. He created numerous posters for various shipping companies , such as B. the Cunard Line , Hamburg America Line , the Hamburg Süd , but also for the German Zeppelin shipping company.
In 1936 he designed the official poster for the sailing competitions of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Kiel and the Kiel Week in the same year. Many of his advertising posters from this phase contain the signature O Anton , printed like a logo , sometimes with the addition Hamburg .
During the Second World War Anton received government contracts, he also drew advertising material for the Waffen SS . At the exhibitions German Artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau and Salzburg he was able to show a picture with Waffen SS pioneers.
The work he did after 1945 includes the logo of the perfume water brand 4711 today .
literature
- Olaf Matthes: Anton, Ottomar . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 18-19 .
Web links
- Poster: Olympic Games 1936 Kiel
- Poster: Kiel Week 1936
- Advertising poster for "Bavaria St. Pauli Beer"
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anton, Ottomar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anton, Ottomar Carl Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1976 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |